🐛 Bug Report: Development and Build errors trying to run website locally

[ChiragAgg5k]

👟 Reproduction steps

1. Clone the repo.
2. As instructed, run pnpm install
3. run pnpm dev

👍 Expected behavior

Should run the development server with no issues

👎 Actual Behavior

Leads to a lot of errors, probably because of undefined environment variables:

(during dev)

(during build)

🎲 Appwrite version

Appwrite Cloud

💻 Operating system

MacOS

🧱 Your Environment

No response

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this issue has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

[ItzNotABug]

Look for the .env.example file in the root of the project, rename it to .env. Restart the dev server and it should work fine.

[ChiragAgg5k]

yeah i get that, but i just expected the docs in CONTRIBUTING.md to mention this. currently its not mentioned