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Customizing Node.js .env Files

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Matthew Casperson
Jul 27, 2021

.env files provide a popular solution for defining environment variables, particularly in Node.js. Platforms like Heroku, for instance, use .env files as part of their recommended best practices.

In this post, we’ll look at a simple Node.js application configured via environment variables, and explore how to customize an .env file with new environment variables that override default values.

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