GitHub App Guide typo

[rsese]

Issue overview

Hiyo 👋! User reporting a typo in https://developer.github.com/apps/quickstart-guides/setting-up-your-development-environment/#step-4-prepare-the-runtime-environment:

I noticed a typo in the Developer Docs: https://developer.github.com/apps/quickstart-guides/setting-up-your-development-environment/

In Step 4, in the example .env file at the end, PRIVATE_KEY should be GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY

So this is the example .env file at the end of step 4.

I think they're right? The template code to start from that we mention in the Prerequisites section uses GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY:

https://github.com/github-developer/github-app-template/blob/d73485c3ef88d351fbd45b11666c045b319f7f49/.env-example#L1

Products affected by this issue

• REST API
• GraphQL API
• Apps
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub Marketplace
• Webhooks

/cc @github/product-docs-ecosystem

[rachmari]

@rsese yes, I think you're correct. It looks like there are other instances where we use PRIVATE_KEY instead of GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY that we might want to fix in the article too.

[casals]

It's not possible to edit this page (hosted at https://developer.github.com) at the moment since it was deprecated in favor of https://docs.github.com/apps/quickstart-guides/setting-up-your-development-environment/ . The new page has the right text (GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY on Step 4). I suggest either closing this issue or referencing it to the internal team.

[janiceilene]

Thanks for looking into that @rsese! @github/docs-content-ecosystem Can we close this issue?

[jmarlena]

Yes, we can close this issue.