Can't run site locally for development

[benmccann]

Describe the bug
npm run dev in the site directory no longer works for me since #4215. Tried running npm run update to solve, but that didn't work either.

Logs
npm run dev gives me:

Could not resolve '../_contributors.js' from src/routes/_components/Contributors.svelte

npm run update gives me:

(node:31424) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: FetchError: request to https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/788001?v=4 failed, reason: connect ETIMEDOUT 151.101.188.133:443

To Reproduce

cd site
npm install

Then run npm run update or npm run dev

Severity
Blocks contributing to the Svelte site

Additional context
Perhaps there was a user who contributed and then deleted their account and we don't handle that?

[tanhauhau]

i have no problem running it on my machine..
and the user you failed to get the avatar is https://github.com/leporo (from https://api.github.com/user/788001), and it seemed to be active

[pngwn]

Are you tethering ben.

[pngwn]

Do you have a weak wifi connection because you are stealing your neighbours wifi.

[pngwn]

On a more serious note, I'm not sure why we require users to download all of these images when developing locally. Could we not just use a grey circle placeholder image 500 times or something to save the trouble? It takes forever to complete as well.

[benmccann]

I went a little overboard and got a fiber optic connection and commercial-grade wifi at my house, so that's probably not it 😄

[antony]

@pngwn another vote from me for using placekitten locally ;)

I also opened #5262 which parallelises / caches the stuff we download, but honestly I wonder if it wouldn't be better if the caches were checked in, and simply refreshed on deployment.

With regards to this specific issue though, I'm also not having an issue with it. In the immortal words of downforeveryoneorjustme.com, "it's just you."

[fangsmile]

I also have this problem.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[pngwn]

Site will be rebuilt using kit soon. I don't think anyone will be spending time investigating this if it is still a problem.