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Ayobami Ogundiran
Ayobami Ogundiran

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📢Stop adding API_KEY to tutorials. Do this...

There are so many tutorials out there that add API_KEY to code.

And some other people now use their keys. Don't do that again.

📢 Do this instead 👇

const API_NAME = "myAPI";
const API_KEY = prompt ("Enter your API_KEY:");
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This gives you the chance to test your code and learners can create their API_KEY to test it.

Note: This is only for the browser 👋.

You can further explain the normal way to do it and why you do it that way not to confuse learners.

Thank me later 🤩.

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Thomas Bnt

I use dotenv for keys and others sensitive data 💪🏼

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Ayobami Ogundiran

How did you use dotenv in the browser?

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