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config
- Hocon (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation)
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XML is better than YAML
I don‘t understand why HOCON (https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md) isn‘t used more often (at least for configuration use cases). It‘s a superset of JSON, has comments, multiline strings, optional quotes, replacement syntax. We use it at many places, and it‘s as nice at it can get.
- Toml-bench – Which toml package to use in Python?
- slf4j or System.Logger?
- TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
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Ron: Rusty Object Notation
HOCON is a great human-readable alternative to JSON. It's a superset of JSON with lots of cool features that make it both more readable and easier to use.
Here's a rundown of HOCON's main features: https://github.com/lightbend/config#features-of-hocon
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Spring and scala
"Typesafe Config" is the library generally used to read configuration files in HOCON format, which this library introduced. It's commonly used in essentially OOP/imperative Scala contexts, including Akka and its ecosystem.
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Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
Interesting!
For my own servers I use an internal tool that integrates apps with systemd. You point it at the output of your build system and a config file, and it produces a deb that contains systemd unit files and which registers/starts the server on install/reboot/upgrade, as a regular debian package would. Then it uploads it to the server via sftp and installs it using apt, so dependencies are resolved. As part of the build process it can download and bundle language runtimes (I use it with a JVM), it scans native binaries to find packages that the app should depend on, and you can define your config including package metadata like dependencies and systemd units using the HOCON language [1].
Upshot is you can go from a Gradle or Maven build to a running server with a few lines of config. Oh and it can build debs from any OS, so you can push from macOS and Windows too. If your server needs to depend on e.g. Postgres, you just add that dependency in your config and it'll be up and running after the push.
It also has features to turn on DynamicUser and other sandboxing features. I think I'll experiment with socket activation next, and then bundled BorgBackup.
Net/net it's pretty nice. I haven't tried with containers because many language ecosystems don't seem to really need them for many use cases. If your build tool knows how to download your language runtime and bundle it sans container by just setting up paths correctly, then going without means you can rely on your Linux distribution to keep things up to date with security patches in the background, it means networking works as you'd expect (no accidentally opened firewall ports!) and so on. SystemD knows how to configure resource isolation/cgroups and kernel sandboxing, so if you need those you can just write that into your build config and it's done. Or not, as you wish.
With a deployment tool to automate builds/pushes, systemd to supervise processes and a big beefy dedicated machine to let you scale up, I wonder how much value the container part is really still providing if you don't need the full functionality of Kubernetes.
[1] https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md
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Introducing JXC: An extensible, expressive data language. It's a drop-in replacement for JSON and supports type annotations, numeric suffixes, base64 strings, and more!
Other similar standards: TOML, HOCON
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Jsonnet is better than YAML for generating JSON
I've also used HOCON pretty extensively for config, and it is better than both YAML and JSON for config with moderate to high complexity.
dotenv
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Tutorial: React + Emailjs
We will put our Emailjs environment variables in a dotenv (.env) file. To read more about the purpose of this file click here.
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How to Use Environment Variables in Node.js
Add .env to your .gitignore file to prevent it from being committed. Here's an example file with it already added. You may also use dotenv for advanced configuration and it will automatically load environment variables from a .env file into process.env.
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Extracting YouTube video data with OpenAI and LangChain
dotenv: Designed to load environment variables from a .env file into the process.env environment
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Top Secrets Management Tools for 2024
Like Doppler, Infisical uses environment variable injection. Similar to the Dotenv package for Node, when used in Node, it injects them at run time into the process object of the running app so they're not readable by any other processes or users. They can still be revealed by a crash dump or logging, so that is a caveat to consider in your code and build scripts.
- AI for Web Devs: Your First API Request to OpenAI
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An intro to Appwrite | Building a To-do list with SvelteKit
We'll be working with databases' ids and different info that should be secured so I would advise you to create a .env file to store said info. We'll do this by installing dotenv into our project and use it accordingly:
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Building and deploying AI agents with E2B
dotenv - For reading our API keys from the environment
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A decade of dotenv
As an avid dotenv user I wanted to thank their maintainers for keeping the project alive for 10 years (wow). A perfect exemplary of dedication to Open Source.
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Automate Your Way to Faster Deployments: CI/CD for MERN Apps
Sensitive data like database URLs, API keys, and passwords should never be hardcoded in your application code. Instead, use environment variables accessed at runtime to keep this information secret. Popular dotenv libraries like dotenv make this easy for Node.js apps.
- Servidor para Blog, com Autenticação JWT - Node.Js & Mysql
What are some alternatives?
cfg4j - Modern configuration library for distributed apps written in Java.
cross-env
owner - Get rid of the boilerplate code in properties based configuration.
multiline
dotenv - A twelve-factor configuration (12factor.net/config) library for Java 8+
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Configur8 - Nano-library which provides the ability to define typesafe (!) configuration templates for applications.
hardhat-deploy - hardhat deployment plugin
centraldogma - Highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2
fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
Visual Studio Code - Public documentation for Visual Studio Code