I'm a self-taught dev focused on websites and Python development.
My friends call me the "Data Genie".
When I get bored, I find tech to read about, write about and build things with.
It doesn't use an API key because the external API doesn't need one. But for Twitter where you do need one, I would have set and used env variables as in my previous comment. Note I would not use a .env file because it would be stored in version control and maybe accidentally deployed as a public file on the site. Keep your secrets out of version control and in your CI tool env variables. Or say AWS secrets manager.
I'm a self-taught dev focused on websites and Python development.
My friends call me the "Data Genie".
When I get bored, I find tech to read about, write about and build things with.
I'm a self-taught dev focused on websites and Python development.
My friends call me the "Data Genie".
When I get bored, I find tech to read about, write about and build things with.
If you are making complex app handling say user profiles and photos then instead of Function you probably need to make a REST API with Express JS or Flask (Python) and maybe a database. And host that on Vercel or AWS. And your app would read the env variables on process.env or os.env when the app starts but only send and receive precise info to the user so they cannot see the API key used behind the scenes.
I have an example of a file and site for reference. I use frontend JS to query the Function and return the result on the frontend.
github.com/MichaelCurrin/netflix-a...
It doesn't use an API key because the external API doesn't need one. But for Twitter where you do need one, I would have set and used env variables as in my previous comment. Note I would not use a .env file because it would be stored in version control and maybe accidentally deployed as a public file on the site. Keep your secrets out of version control and in your CI tool env variables. Or say AWS secrets manager.
Drifting from the web app flow, here is how to use secret environment variables on GitHub Actions to post a tweet.
github.com/MichaelCurrin/tweet-gh-...
If you are making complex app handling say user profiles and photos then instead of Function you probably need to make a REST API with Express JS or Flask (Python) and maybe a database. And host that on Vercel or AWS. And your app would read the env variables on
process.envoros.envwhen the app starts but only send and receive precise info to the user so they cannot see the API key used behind the scenes.Thank you so much for all the resources, sounds very interesting (and tricky :D)!