🛠️ Tooling: Allow local website development without a Liveblocks key?

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Right now, if you don't set a NEXT_PUBLIC_LIVEBLOCKS_PUBLIC_KEY environment key and then pnpm dev the website, the page throws an error in the terminal:

 ✓ Compiled / in 6s (3741 modules)
 ⨯ Error: Invalid Liveblocks client options. Please provide either a `publicApiKey` or `authEndpoint` option. They cannot both be empty. For more information: https://liveblocks.io/docs/api-reference/liveblocks-client#createClient
    at prepareAuthentication (file:///Users/josh/repos/million/node_modules/.pnpm/@liveblocks+core@1.5.0/node_modules/@liveblocks/core/dist/index.mjs:1449:9)
    at createAuthManager (file:///Users/josh/repos/million/node_modules/.pnpm/@liveblocks+core@1.5.0/node_modules/@liveblocks/core/dist/index.mjs:1298:26)
    at createClient (file:///Users/josh/repos/million/node_modules/.pnpm/@liveblocks+core@1.5.0/node_modules/@liveblocks/core/dist/index.mjs:6001:23)
    at eval (webpack-internal:///./liveblocks.config.ts:15:80) {
  page: '/'
}

...which gets shown as a blocking Next.js error modal:

It'd be nice if we didn't need to have a Liveblocks account to run the website locally. Would you be open to letting the website run without one in dev mode? I'd be happy to send a PR that refactors this a bit to just log a warning! ❤️

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[skushagra9]

Hey, I was working on this, I logged a warning for the absence of the env variable
@tobySolutions , are you open to run the website like this in dev mode??

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[JoshuaKGoldberg]

🤔 this feels like an unnecessarily aggressive stale bot. It probably shouldn't close issues that aren't waiting on an external person, no?

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[JoshuaKGoldberg]

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[JoshuaKGoldberg]

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[ImLunaHey]

can someone change the stale bot my god..

[aidenybai]

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