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prerender.retryCount never retried anything. The retry path called addCrawlPageTask(page) again, which returns early because the page is already in seen:

retriesByPath.set(page.path, retries + 1)
addCrawlPageTask(page) // seen.has(page.path) -> return

So a page that failed once was neither retried nor rethrown. With retryCount > 0 it was silently dropped, even with failOnError on.

The render is now a function of the attempt number, and a retry queues it again:

queue.add(() => prerenderPage(retries + 1))

retriesByPath is no longer needed and is removed.

Tests: tests/prerender-retry.test.ts covers a page that succeeds on a retry (requested twice, file written) and a page that keeps failing with failOnError: false (requested 1 + retryCount times, then skipped). Both fail on main.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Failed prerender pages are retried up to the configured retry count. Pages that still fail are skipped when failOnError is disabled. When enabled, prerendering rejects with the failure and stops pages that have not yet started.

A retry re-entered `addCrawlPageTask`, which returned early because the
page was already in `seen`, so a page that failed once was dropped
without being retried or rethrown, even with `failOnError` enabled.

Retry by queueing the same page render again with the next attempt
count, and drop the per-path retry map it superseded.
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Prerender tasks now retry failed pages up to the configured retryCount. When failOnError is enabled, the first terminal error is raised after the queue settles, and pending tasks stop before crawling. Tests cover recovery, ignored failures, and exhausted retries.

Changes: Prerender retries

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Retry task flow and validation
packages/start-plugin-core/src/prerender.ts, packages/start-plugin-core/tests/prerender-retry.test.ts, packages/start-plugin-core/tests/prerender-fail-on-error.test.ts, .changeset/prerender-retry-count.md
Prerender tasks receive retry counts and enqueue retries with an incremented count. When failOnError is enabled, terminal errors are raised after queue completion, and pending tasks do not crawl after an error is recorded. Tests cover recovery, ignored failures, exhausted retries, and stopping pending page tasks. The changeset documents the retry behavior.

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Failed pages are retried before pending pages, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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- Line 233: Update prerenderPages to observe rejected tasks added with Queue.add
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With `failOnError` enabled, a page that kept failing threw inside its
queue task, whose rejection nothing observed, so `prerender` resolved
and the error surfaced only as an unhandled rejection.

Record the error instead and reject once the queue settles.
Once a page fails with `failOnError`, skip the tasks that start after
it instead of prerendering every remaining page before rejecting, so
the build fails as soon as the error is known.

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🟠 Major · Queue retries ahead of pending pages. · prerender.ts:240

packages/start-plugin-core/src/prerender.ts:240
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Queue retries ahead of pending pages.

If /missing fails with retryCount: 1 and concurrency one, queue.add places its retry behind /about and every other pending page. Those pages run before the retry establishes a terminal failure. This defeats the intended early stop on failed builds with retries. Add the retry with { priority: true }, and test the request order when another page is pending.

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-            queue.add(() => prerenderPage(retries + 1))
+            queue.add(() => prerenderPage(retries + 1), { priority: true })
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Review comment at @packages/start-plugin-core/src/prerender.ts at line 240:
Update the retry scheduling in prerenderPage to add the retry with priority, so
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Queue retries ahead of pending pages. (prerender.ts:240)

Addressed in 1b4164e: retries are now queued with { priority: true } so they run before pages that haven't started yet. The failOnError test now also covers retryCount: 1 with concurrency: 1 and asserts /about is never requested.

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