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?

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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