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ViewsHow put API key on env files in a Node.js app?
this is my first time im trying to handle " Web api ", so i took this project to get many call but after it running well, when i try to click to "search" it dosent work,
I guess the problem arises from api call because chrome inspector show me that :
I was able to understand on the different forums, for handling apis call with Node.js that must be encapsulated API calls behind "Environment variable".
That the config.js file
When i try to put on the terminal export env.API_KEY='000000000000000' it made me :
export: not valid in this context: env.API_KEY
I hope you can point me in the right direction, I very tried everything, to run it that.
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I personally like to use a npm package called dotenv:
You can install it by running npm i dotenv within your api directory.
Have a file called .env within your api directory which contains all of your environment variables:
APP_ID="000000000000000"
API_KEY="000000000000000"
Then change config.js to load all environment variable files when it is executed by including require('dotenv').config():
require('dotenv').config()
module.exports = {
APP_ID: process.env.APP_ID,
API_KEY: process.env.API_KEY,
BASE_URL: 'https://api.adzuna.com/v1/api/jobs',
BASE_PARAMS: 'search/1?&results_per_page=20&content-type=application/json',
};
Note: you will also want to add .env to your .gitingore so that your sensitive API keys aren't included in your git repository