pizza-api VS dotenv

The branch prior to this work can be checked out at before-cypress-setup, and the PR for cypress setup can be found here. If you are following along, a practical way to accomplish this section is to copy over the PR.

In part1 we setup LaunchDarkly feature flags in our lambda handlers, deploy the lambda using ClaudiaJs, verify our service's behavior via VsCode REST Client and Amazon CloudWatch. In part 2 we bring in Cypress, api e2e test the feature flags, and showcase effective feature flag test strategies that can work for any deployed service. The PR for part1 of the blog series can be found at feature flag setup and test. The PR for part2 of the blog series can be found at e2e testing LD feature flags with Cypress. The branch saga through the blog series looks like the below. Once can check out these and follow along the blog, granted they have a LaunchDarkly account (2 week trial), an AWS account and familiarity with deploying lambdas.

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

Add the following code to your index.js file. Make sure to update the API_TOKEN with your secret. Even better: Use the dotenv NPM package to keep your code free of secret keys.

Let’s break down what’s happening here. First, we import the necessary packages, the Weaviate client and the dotenv configuration. dotenv is a package that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. The Weaviate and OpenAI keys and URLs are typically stored in environment variables to keep them secret and out of your codebase.