Name: 4.3: Mastodon Bot - Environment Variables in Node with dotenv
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T07:58:12.000Z
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Future simple

All it did so far was tweet, it didn't tweet, it tooted.

Toot, tweet, blog, post, who knows what all this stuff is?

All I know is that it said, (whistle blows) choo choo.

So I would like to show you some more things to

make the bot a little bit better before we move on

and hopefully start making some actual interesting

examples of different kinds of bots you might want

So the first thing that I want to do is actually,

I don't want to have all of this, all these secret

keys and everything right here in my code

because I'm going to upload this as an example

I want to be able to hide that stuff away, but still use it.

There's actually a wonderful node package.

What this allows me to do is create environment

That way I can upload the code without the values of those

environment variables, but anybody who's using that code

could set their own values for those environment variables.

So what I'm going to need to do is create a new file,

So it's kind of like, you can see it right here,

Then in this, ooh, look there's all these extensions

I could use probably to like format it in all sorts

What I'm going to do and I'm looking over here

because thankfully Alka gave me some suggestions,

CLIENT_SECRET= and I'm going to say CLIENT_ID=.

So that they're in the code, client_key is this.

I'm going to put this back in here, client_key,

Maybe it shouldn't be in quotes actually.

Then I'm going to go back to the env file

Right now I'm using single quotes, which may or may not

Okay, just for consistency's sake maybe I'll make

Then I'm going to say, then I need to call ENV.config

The chat thankfully helped me out that I do not want

and then I should be able to now, down here somewhere,

I should be able to say ahh, I should be able to say

So I should be able to grab those environment variables.

Let's say choo choo twice and let's run this.

All right (claps hands) I think this might have worked.

So all of this stuff is now hidden inside

my environment file and what I'm also going to do now

I'm going to make another file called .env-sample.

Into here and then I'm going to take out all this stuff.

I'm going to make, because eventually I'll put this

I'm going to make a file called .gitignore

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