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Hasty Treat - Environmental Variables
๐ Download Showโ๏ธ Edit Show NotesIn this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about environment variables โ what they are, where you should keep them, and more!
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Show Notes
03:54 - What are they?
- API Keys
- Secrets
- Database URLs
- NODE_ENV
06:16 - Type of env variables
- Plain text
- Encrypted
- Frontend
- Backend
- .env files
.envis a good package for all langs.env.local
- Framework env variables
- System env variables
- Host-provided variables
16:20 - Where should you keep them?
17:34 - Other gotchas
- Netlify Limit is 4096
- Netlify needs a clear cache before it works
THING=yo node index.js- cross-env
- NODE_OPTIONS="--inspect"
- Require before run
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