Environment Variables & dotenv — Roadmap Step & Resources
Managing configuration and secrets with environment variables
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: MEAN Stack
Before this step
Study resources
- dotenv (Article) — The official dotenv package documentation for loading .env files into process.env.
- Environment Variables (Article) — The official Next.js documentation on public vs server-only environment variables.
- Environment Variables in Node.js (Video) — Web Dev Simplified shows how to properly store and hide API keys, secrets, and ports using dotenv.
Part of
- Node.js — section
- MEAN Stack roadmap — the full learning path