Admin UI does not load if GitHub App installed to empty repo

[tyteen4a03]

Description

Linking a Keystatic app to an brand new, uninitialized GItHub repo would cause the Admin UI to be completely blank.

Reproduction

1. Create a Keystatic app and run it in development.
2. Link it to a brand new repository. (I used an organization one but I don't think it matters)
3. Try to access https://127.0.0.1/keystatic

[simonswiss]

I'm not sure I understand the use case where you'd want to do that. Keystatic in github mode will read/write content from the GitHub repository directly, so it's a fair assumption to expect that repo to have a Keystatic project committed.

Do you have a use case/workflow where that's an issue and the code for the repo cannot be committed and pushed?

[tyteen4a03]

I'm not sure I understand the use case where you'd want to do that. Keystatic in github mode will read/write content from the GitHub repository directly, so it's a fair assumption to expect that repo to have a Keystatic project committed.

Do you have a use case/workflow where that's an issue and the code for the repo cannot be committed and pushed?

When you create a Keystatic project for the first time.

[dxxta]

i faced the same issue a hour ago and solved now. Based on my experience, there is few things you have to check:

• make sure that you already setup this https://keystatic.com/docs/github-mode#branch-prefix. Also dont forget to add your branchPrefix based on your github default branch. For me its main
• create the repo name based on keystatic.config.js and make sure its not private
• install the app into your repository

then your project is ready to go... 🚀

[tyteen4a03]

Yes, I think this experience should be improved so an error message shows you exactly what you need to do.