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Hi @rjohar014 👋

This repository is still in steadily ongoing development (including breaking changes at any time) and, like described in #1, the main goal is to create a sine-source-of-truth for the Nord project which is why this is kind of a opinionated project and currently not really laid out to be easily usable by others. That's why there is no documentation about this repository and how to build & use it at all.

Anyway, the problem you're facing is the fact that the used gatsby-source-graphql plugin requires an valid GitHub API token in order to fetch data from the GraphQL API. The data is used to display information about all the port project repositories on the ports page like the amount of stars or the latest version as well as linking to the public URL of the repository without “hardcoding“ it into the code base.
The GitHub API token is stored in the both .env files for production & development that are both encrypted using the de-facto standard tool git-crypt (see .git-crypt folder in the repository root).

In order to use the project you need to

• create a GitHub API token to be able to fetch (public) data from the GraphQL API
• delete both .env files and replace them with your own ones or use any other package or script to set and expose the required environment variables that contains the GitHub API token. During build time the environment variables named NORD_DOCS_GITHUB_API_TOKEN_READONLY_PUBLIC will be checked for the token, but you can adjust the code to use any other name.
  Please be careful to not expose these publicly but only on your local system, otherwise also encrypt them to store them in a public repository.

Related to #173

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Thank you for the detailed answer! I really appreciate you taking the time to thoroughly explain what's going on. I'll follow your instructions and should be able to troubleshoot and get it up and running again.

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Are you able to point me to a resource that will give a more detailed step-by-step approach as to how to replace .env with my own? I'm not sure what the file is supposed to contain nor how to expose the required environment variables. Thanks.

EDIT: Got it working. Thanks again :)

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You're welcome, nice to to see you got it working 😄
The .env files are loaded using the dotenv package and loaded in the gatsby-config.js file. The files can contain normal (shell) environment variable definitions, e.g.:

GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXXXXX

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