left-pad VS dotenv

It's pretty easy to find that the example I gave isn't gamed... A cursory search on GitHub can find a couple examples like dotenv [1] and npm's cli [2] both use it via an older version of nodejs/readable-stream [3].

There's also the classic left-pad debacle - https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/issues/4

[1] - https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/blob/master/package-lock....

when using some other modern libraries like tailwind, you have to update the Next.js version carefully or you may have some errors following the Next.js update. Nothing new in javascript world, if something is working it's not guaranteed it will last :) It is important to really read the Next.js release notes as the base configuration may change in between the releases.

It's OK, it's reddit, it happens. I will say however that unless you are deploying to a windows server on premise somewhere you are using open source. (And soon even that won't be true because eventually Windows is going to be based on Linux.) I'm not asking people to give up their weekends or anything, but IMO if you consume open source, you have an obligation to contribute back something. Even if it's just reporting a bug on some library that you use.

Funny story, on the day that they unpublished it, the package.json states the license to be "WTFPL", which allows NPM to Do What The Fuck You Want To

It had been optimized (and deprecated) since then. See https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/blob/master/index.js

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.