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Sensitive Environment Variables ​

Defining sensitive environment variables ​

It's always a good idea to provide all team members with information about required environment variables, including sensitive ones.

To do this, you can create two separate example files and pass the public file to the example option:

ini
# .env.example.public
NAME=
ini
# .env.example.private
SECRET_KEY=

Accessing sensitive environment variables ​

You should use process.env to access sensitive environment variables in your code, since it's server-side only:

js
const NAME = import.meta.env.NAME;
const SECRET_KEY = process.env.SECRET_KEY;

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