In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about environment variables — 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
  • .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

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