The Missing GitHub Icon That Broke My Production Build

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The setup

I'm building KingxTech, and specifically K-XpertAI — an AI agent that reads, writes, and deletes files in a live project workspace, then hosts the result instantly. Under the hood it's a React 19 + Vite frontend talking to a TypeScript/Express backend on Cloud Run.

I'd just shipped a big batch of changes to the workspace UI — a proper code editor, a file tree with GitHub import/export buttons, a terminal tab. Pushed to GitHub, Vercel kicked off the deploy... and it failed.

The bug

The Missing GitHub Icon That Broke My Production Build

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