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PixAI DevLog: Day 4

Nabil Alamin on January 01, 2021

I should be done by now... Been an interesting few days developing this app, here some of the stuff that happened: Finished fully resp...
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Ayan Banerjee •

I should be deploying by now, in fact I did but I took down cos my api_keys weren't secured, I've gone through posts about hiding stuff like on github with gitignore but I can't seem to get it working in production

You can add those to environmental variables. In fact, I am using those only to hide API keys: dev.to/ayanb/medidoc-update-4-depl... 😅

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Nabil Alamin •

Thanks for this, it worked.
The problem now is it has to be refreshed after each api call 😥, any suggestions?

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Ayan Banerjee • • Edited

Does your API key change after each call?

It's true that once you modify the environment variables the app has to be redeployed.

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Nabil Alamin •

No the key doesn't change that's why I'm confused, its until the page is refreshed then it works

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Ayan Banerjee •

Then you have to change something in code I believe.

Does the same thing happen locally? Also, any error messages in browser console?

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Nabil Alamin •

Yh I figured it out, Omitted a dependency in useEfffect hook 🤧😅. It's working smoothly now. Thanks