Allow using Personal Access Tokens to access GitHub data

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Right now authentication with GitHub is done via GitHub Apps, which requires an elaborate setup using private keys and stuff. Creating a GitHub App requires a lot of privilege on the organization. This makes it hard for people to contribute to the backend.

Task — Add ability to use Personal Access Token to auth with GitHub.

Recommended starting points

• contentsgarten/packages/contentsgarten/src/ContentsgartenUserConfig.ts

  Lines 9 to 18 in aebab74

  	export interface GitHubUserConfig {
  	auth: GitHubAppAuthUserConfig
  	repo: string
  	branch: string
  	}
  	export interface GitHubAppAuthUserConfig {
  	appId: number
  	privateKey: string
  	}

  • Change auth: GitHubAppAuthUserConfig | GitHubPersonalAccessTokenAuthUserConfig
  • Add GitHubPersonalAccessTokenAuthUserConfig interface with token: string

• contentsgarten/wiki.creatorsgarten.org/src/pages/api/contentsgarten/[action].ts

  Lines 10 to 22 in aebab74

  	export const config = {
  	testing: Env(
  	z.object({
  	BACKEND: z.enum(['production', 'real']).default('real'),
  	}),
  	),
  	credentials: Env(
  	z.object({
  	GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY: z.string(),
  	MONGO_URI: z.string(),
  	}),
  	),
  	}

  • Update credentials schema so that one of GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY or GH_TOKEN is provided.

If you use gh CLI, you can use gh auth status --show-token to get your own GitHub token. Alternatively you can go to https://github.com/settings/tokens to create new token.