API error in getStaticProps => build error?

[fabb]

I couldn't find anything about thrown errors in getStaticProps in the docs. For example when an API request fails. I hope that this would cause a build error?

If not, that could cause compiling an error into the static page undetected, being fatal on deployment. If it would cause a build error, still we would need to not use try/catch for API calls, otherwise we would run into the same issue.

https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/data-fetching#getstaticprops-static-generation

[timneutkens]

Errors thrown from getStaticProps will cause the build to fail

[fabb]

Ok thx. Then we should not use try/catch for api requests in getStaticProps.