fix: don't error out if API is not running during frontend build

frontend/src/routes/+layout.server.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-import { error } from "@sveltejs/kit";
+import { building } from "$app/environment";
 import type { LayoutServerLoad } from "./$types";
-import type { APIError } from "$lib/api/entities";
 import { apiFetch } from "$lib/api/fetch";
 import type { MetaResponse } from "$lib/api/responses";
 
@@ -8,6 +7,24 @@ export const load = (async () => {
   try {
     return await apiFetch<MetaResponse>("/meta", {});
   } catch (e) {
-    throw error(500, (e as APIError).message);
+    console.warn("error fetching meta endpoint:", e);
+
+    if (building) {
+      // just return an empty object--this only affects the three static pages, nothing else, so it's fine
+      return {
+        git_repository: "",
+        git_commit: "",
+        users: {
+          total: 0,
+          active_month: 0,
+          active_week: 0,
+          active_day: 0,
+        },
+        members: 0,
+        require_invite: false,
+      };
+    } else {
+      throw e;
+    }
   }
 }) satisfies LayoutServerLoad;