Publishing fails due to GITHUB_TOKEN not being found

[benjtinsley]

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Please describe your issue:

I need to publish my app to a private repo, however when running the publish task it fails with the following output:

$ electron-forge publish
✔ Checking your system
✔ Resolving Forge Config
We need to package your application before we can make it
✔ Preparing to Package Application for arch: x64
✔ Compiling Application
✔ Preparing native dependencies
✔ Packaging Application
Making for the following targets:
✔ Making for target: zip - On platform: darwin - For arch: x64
✔ Making for target: dmg - On platform: darwin - For arch: x64
✔ Resolving publish target: github

Electron forge was terminated:
Please set GITHUB_TOKEN in your environment to access these features

However, I have a GITHUB_TOKEN variable set in my .env file like so:

//.env
export GITHUB_TOKEN=[my github token]

Should I be setting it elsewhere? The documentation does not mention where to put a github token in the event of a private repo so perhaps I am setting it in the wrong place.

Thanks!

[benjtinsley]

It appears I would have to set the token in the command with the --auth-token flag. Perhaps the error message could be improved a bit, but for now I think this gets me to where I need to go.

[MarshallOfSound]

.env files are not automatically read, I'd you have that variable actually set in your she'll it should work fine

[luveqz]

The env-cmd package works for me:

package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "publish": "env-cmd electron-forge publish",
  }
}

.env

GITHUB_TOKEN=my-token-foo-bar