feat(marketing): fetch GitHub stars at build time#29555

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The marketing site hardcoded the GitHub star count ("40k+"), so it went stale between manual bumps.

MARKETING_STATS.githubStars now comes from the GitHub API when the static site builds, so every deploy shows the current count rounded down to thousands (41,358 renders as "41k+"). The site has no server adapter, so this runs only at build; no client bundle imports site.ts, and dist/ contains no call to the API.

A production build fails if the fetch fails rather than ship a made-up count; dev logs a warning and shows "?". The fetch sends GITHUB_TOKEN when set, in case Vercel's shared build IPs hit the unauthenticated rate limit.

Verified with a production build (nav and homepage both render "41k+") and vp run check:changed.

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Minor Add a deadline to the GitHub stars request. External image

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7Review comments at @apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts:
8- Line 21: Update the GitHub stars fetch-failure handling to allow the fallback
9only when the build mode is explicitly development; throw for every other mode,
10including staging. Replace the import.meta.env.PROD check with a mode check that
11defaults to production-safe behavior.
12- Around line 13-15: Add a request-level deadline to the GitHub stars fetch in
13the MARKETING_STATS flow in site.ts by passing a timeout signal created when the
14request starts. Ensure the deadline also bounds the response body read, while
15preserving the existing headers and catch fallback.
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The marketing site now fetches the GitHub repository’s star count at build time. It formats the count for display and handles request failures based on the build environment.

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Fetch and format GitHub stars
apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts
The build-time request optionally uses GITHUB_TOKEN. Counts below 1,000 display as exact values; larger counts display as floored thousands with a k+ suffix. Production builds throw on failure. Other builds warn and return ?.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 29176 reports the outdated hardcoded GitHub star count that this change replaces.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

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A stalled GitHub request can delay the marketing build, and a staging build can publish a placeholder star count after a fetch failure. These are bounded risks to address before relying on the new count.

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8- Line 21: Update the GitHub stars fetch-failure handling to allow the fallback
9only when the build mode is explicitly development; throw for every other mode,
10including staging. Replace the import.meta.env.PROD check with a mode check that
11defaults to production-safe behavior.
12- Around line 13-15: Add a request-level deadline to the GitHub stars fetch in
13the MARKETING_STATS flow in site.ts by passing a timeout signal created when the
14request starts. Ensure the deadline also bounds the response body read, while
15preserving the existing headers and catch fallback.
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……@@ -6,7 +6,25 @@ export const IOS_APP_STORE_URL =
12+ try {
13+ const response = await fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/pingdotgg/t3code", {
14+ headers: token ? { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } : {},
15+ });
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3rg -n 'MARKETING_STATS|githubStars|GITHUB_TOKEN|NODE_ENV' apps/marketing/src apps/marketing/astro.config.* apps/marketing/package.json

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Add a deadline to the GitHub stars request.

The request has no signal, so a connection that stays open with no response holds the top-level await in MARKETING_STATS until the runtime's fetch timeout ends it. The catch fallback runs only after that rejection. Node's global fetch uses undici, whose default headersTimeout and bodyTimeout are each 300 seconds. A stall therefore delays the build or dev startup by up to about five minutes per phase, not indefinitely. A request-level deadline, created at call time, bounds the whole request, including the body read in response.json(), and shortens that wait.

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1--- "a/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts"
2+++ "b/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts"
3@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@
4 async function fetchGithubStars(): Promise<string> {
5 const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN;
6 try {
7 const response = await fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/pingdotgg/t3code", {
8 headers: token ? { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } : {},
9+ signal: AbortSignal.timeout(10_000),
10 });
11 if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`GitHub API responded ${response.status}`);
12 const { stargazers_count: stars } = (await response.json()) as { stargazers_count: number };
13 return stars < 1000 ? String(stars) : `${Math.floor(stars / 1000)}k+`;
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1 const response = await fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/pingdotgg/t3code", {
2 headers: token ? { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } : {},
3 signal: AbortSignal.timeout(10_000),
4 });
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6Review comment at @apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts around lines 13 - 15:
7Add a request-level deadline to the GitHub stars fetch in the MARKETING_STATS
8flow in site.ts by passing a timeout signal created when the request starts.
9Ensure the deadline also bounds the response body read, while preserving the
10existing headers and catch fallback.
11
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……@@ -6,7 +6,25 @@ export const IOS_APP_STORE_URL =
18+ return stars < 1000 ? String(stars) : `${Math.floor(stars / 1000)}k+`;
19+ } catch (error) {
20+ // A deploy must not ship a made-up count; offline dev should still render.
21+ if (import.meta.env.PROD) throw new Error("Could not fetch GitHub stars", { cause: error });
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Fail builds independently of NODE_ENV.

If a build runs with NODE_ENV=staging, Astro preserves that value and Vite sets import.meta.env.PROD to false. A failed fetch then produces a deployable site with ? instead of failing the build. Use an explicit build-versus-dev flag for this decision. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Based on learnings: “check explicitly for the development value” and default to production-safe behavior otherwise.

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6Review comment at @apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts at line 21:
7Update the GitHub stars fetch-failure handling to allow the fallback only when
8the build mode is explicitly development; throw for every other mode, including
9staging. Replace the import.meta.env.PROD check with a mode check that defaults
10to production-safe behavior.
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Verdict: Approved at 785c459

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The marketing site now fetches its displayed GitHub star count during static builds. Exposure is limited to presentation and build delays or failures, with no new visitor-time dependency or customer-data changes.

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