tsconfig-paths VS dotenv

If you've use a re-map path in your project, you have to pass it up to tsconfig-paths like this,

There are multiple libraries available for configuring path aliases in Node.js, such as alias-hq and tsconfig-paths. However, while looking through the Node.js documentation, I discovered a way to configure path aliases without having to rely on third-party libraries. Moreover, this approach enables the use of aliases without requiring the build step.

If you're not using webpack, you can give tsconfig-paths a try.

Path mapping Very handy tsconfig-paths library allows to import modules from the filesystem without prefixing them with "./".

was just dealing with this yesterday. You need to use this package: https://github.com/dividab/tsconfig-paths

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.