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2026-07-30 23:07
The Astro Image Gotcha That Broke Our Production Build and How We Fixed It
We ship a bilingual (French/Arabic) marketplace site built on Astro — static output, hundreds of location plus service pages, and a few thousand professional profile pages, each with a photo pulled from Firebase Storage. Nothing exotic. Then one day the production build just... died. No warning during local dev, no failing test, no lint error. npm run build exited non-zero, and the stack trace poi...