foal VS dotenv

Version 3.0 of Foal is finally there!

Version 2.11 of Foal is out! Here are the improvements that it brings:

I'm a fan of FoalTS

Version 2.10 of Foal is out! This small release brings some tiny improvements.

FoalTS 2022 survey is now open (yes, a few months late 🙃)!

FoalTS allows you to generate your OpenAPI documentation directly from your code: https://foalts.org/docs/api-section/openapi-and-swagger-ui.

Original publication: https://foalts.org/blog/2022/05/29/version-2.9-release-notes

I would guess commodity plumbing. There's a lot of work you have to do to get something like express on par with Rails or any other Rails inspired framework for which there are many in multiple languages even in nodejs.

imo the one I like best in nodejs is Blitzjs https://blitzjs.com/

FoalTS https://foalts.org/ is nice too and there are several other full stack frameworks like Nestjs, FeatherJs, and redwoodjs

We will put our Emailjs environment variables in a dotenv (.env) file. To read more about the purpose of this file click here.

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.

dotenv: Designed to load environment variables from a .env file into the process.env environment

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.

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:

dotenv - For reading our API keys from the environment

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.

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.