👷 don't run @effectionx/watch in CI website build#1163
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The www workflow was running `deno task dev`, which wraps the server in @effectionx/watch. That watcher restarts the server when files change in the working directory — including `www/built/`, where Staticalize writes crawled pages. A restart mid-crawl returned 500 to in-flight requests, causing intermittent failures on a different URL each run. Run the server directly in CI; no watcher needed.
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Motivation
The scheduled
wwwworkflow has been failing intermittently — a different URL returns 500 each time (/guides/v3/events,/docs/collections,/x/signals,/docs/tutorial), and the failed runs all bail in ~40s while successful ones take 2m+.Theory:
deno task devwraps the server in@effectionx/watch. While Staticalize crawls pages, it writes output intowww/built/. The watcher (running fromwww/) sees those writes, restarts the server, and in-flight requests get 500. Staticalize aborts on the first non-2xx.(Locally the watcher should pick up
.gitignoreexcludes includingbuilt/, so this could be a bug in @effectionx/watch, but either way, there's no reason to watch in CI.)Approach
Replace
deno task devwithdeno run -A main.tsxin.github/workflows/www.yaml. No watcher in CI = no mid-crawl restarts.