Sometimes, we want to store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files.
In this article, we’ll look at how to store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files.
How to store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files?
To store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files, we can use the dotenv package.
To install it, we run
npm i dotenv
Then we write
const dotenv = require('dotenv');
dotenv.load();
to require the dotenv package.
And then we call dotenv.load to load our config file.
Then in our .env file, we can put some config entries like
S3_BUCKET=bucket
SECRET_KEY=secret
OTHER_SECRET_STUFF=secret
And the data from the .env file will be put in the process.env object with the keys in .env as the property names.
Conclusion
To store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files, we can use the dotenv package.
