Replace all in-scope axios callsites with a new helpers/http.js wrapper over native fetch, including JSON/text GET, JSON POST, HEAD checks, and transient 5xx retry behavior; update all browser, build, script, and proxy API clients to use it; add focused unit tests; and remove axios from package dependencies.
Constraint: Preserve API/build and deployment behavior while lowering transport surface area.
Rejected: inline fetch replacements at each callsite | rejected to avoid inconsistent error/retry semantics.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep helper in place as the transport boundary and update tests when changing request semantics.
Tested: pnpm run -s typecheck, pnpm -s run test-prebuild, pnpm -s run test, pnpm -s run test:browser, pnpm -s run netlify-build, smoke GETs on /apple-silicon-app-test and /apple-silicon-app-test/?version=2
Not-tested: branch/netlify deployment health in CI pipeline after merge
Add a Bun health script that exercises top-level, dynamic, and representative video routes against one or more hosts so prod regressions are visible from a single command.
Device pages now fall back to the bundled device list when the external API misses a slug, and orphaned tv slugs redirect to /benchmarks instead of returning a 500. Video fallback logic reuses the existing YouTube-to-listing builder so route reconstruction stays aligned with the current build logic.
Constraint: The external API host can lag behind the frontend build and omit per-slug JSON files that public routes still expect
Rejected: Import the generated video list directly | static/video-list.json is too large for a safe SSR fallback
Rejected: Leave missing tv routes as 500s | a stale public URL should degrade to a useful redirect instead of breaking the request
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep route fallbacks tied to build-time artifacts from the same repo so frontend and fallback data stay in sync
Tested: bun scripts/health http://127.0.0.1:4322; vitest ./test/prebuild/config-node.test.js ./test/prebuild/site-listings.test.js; pnpm run netlify-build
Not-tested: live production deploy before push
