• marcos@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Here’s the thing, config.json should have been on the project’s .gitignore.

    Not exactly because of credentials. But, how do you change it to test with different settings?

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      4 months ago

      For a lot of my projects, there is a config-<env>.json that is selected at startup based the environment.

      Nothing secure in those, however.

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      4 months ago

      But, how do you change it to test with different settings?

      When it’s really messy, we:

      • check in a template file,
      • securely share a .env file (and .gitignore it)
      • and check in one line script that inflates the real config file (which we also .gitignore).