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Mar 15, 2021 23 min

Hasty Treat - Environmental Variables

from Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats Hosted by Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about environment variables — what they are, where you should keep them, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. 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 .env is a good package for all langs .env.local Framework env variables System env variables Host-provided variables 16:20 - Where should you keep them? 1Password 1Password CLI 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 Links Digital Ocean App Platform Render Vercel Netlify Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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