Creating a GitHub App

Before deploying Shape Docs or contributing to the project, you need to register an app on GitHub. The GitHub App enables two features in Shape Docs:

• Authorizing users with GitHub. Shape Docs uses GitHub to manage access to documentation. Because documentation resides in repositories hosted on GitHub, users only have access to the documentation that resides within the repositories they have access to.
• Commenting on PRs that make changes to OpenAPI specifications. The Shape Docs bot comments on PRs to provide the author and reviewers with links to preview the changes on the web portal.

Let's create and configure a GitHub App.