Introduce shared cachedFetch helper (lib/data-fetch.js) wrapping
EleventyFetch with two protections:
- 10-second hard timeout via AbortController on every network request,
preventing slow or unresponsive APIs from hanging the build
- 4-hour cache TTL in watch/serve mode (vs 5-15 min originals), so
incremental rebuilds serve from disk cache instead of re-fetching
APIs every time a markdown file changes
All 13 network _data files updated to use cachedFetch. Production
builds keep original short TTLs for fresh data.
Targets the "Data File" benchmark (12,169ms / 32% of incremental
rebuild) — the largest remaining bottleneck after filter memoization.
Confab-Link: http://localhost:8080/sessions/0b241cd6-aff2-4fec-853c-2b5a61e61946
Strip personal data from templates so the theme ships clean for any
deployer. Collection pages now use generatePageOnEmptyData so empty
post types show encouraging placeholders instead of 404s. Navigation
is conditional on enabled post types and installed plugins. Sidebar
widgets split into individual components with plugin-aware visibility.
Slashes page explains required plugins for root-level page creation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
