How to pull design tokens from several Specify repositories in GitHub

This example GitHub repository helps you pull design tokens from several Specify repositories.

It contains a GitHub Action that automatically pulls design tokens from Specify. If your Specify and your GitHub repositoy differ, a new PR will be opened containing your updated design tokens.

What is pulled from Specify

Our GitHub Action is in the file update-design-tokens.yaml.

Let's summarize this workflow:

1. We install the Specify CLI
2. We pull design tokens from several Specify repositories from the same example organization @acme-inc: General, Light-Theme and Dark-Theme.
3. We create a Pull Request on a new branch called specify

How to use this repository

Prerequisites

Please make sure you have:

1. Several source Specify repositories containing your design tokens
2. A Specify Personal Access Token

How to pull design tokens from Specify

1. Set a new repository secret called SPECIFY_TOKEN containing your Specify Personal Access Token in your GitHub repository: Settings > Secrets > Actions
2. Change the Specify repositories called in the GitHub Action

Don't forget to enable GitHub workflows in your GitHub repository.