Welcome to part-2 of the series. We will continue our journey to build a simple video chat app with twilio api, for the dev.to hackathon.
We had logged into the twilio dashboard in part-1. Now, click on the three dots on the left menu as in the screenshot below.
Three dots
Next, click on Programmable Video in the menu.
Programmable Video
In the next screen we have to click on Show API Credentials link.
Show API Credentials
From the next page note down your ACCOUNT SID and AUTH TOKEN.
Credentials
Now, time to put both the secrets in a .env file. Create a .env file in the root directory and put ACCOUNT SID and AUTH TOKEN into, TWILIO_ACC_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN variables.
.env
Then click on Tools in the left menu.
Tools
After that click on the API Keys sub-menu link. Next, we have to click on Create new API Key button.
API Keys
In the next screen, we have to give the API key a name and then click on Create API Key button.
Name
After that in the next screen, we will be shown the SID and SECRET. We need to note them both.
Secret
Then click on the checkbox and the Done button.
Checkbox
After that in the next screen our secret won’t be shown. And this means our API Keys are saved.
Saved
Next, again go to the .env file and save these two variables.
.env
The settings of API keys took a lot of time, so we will start with twilio functions in the next part.
You can also find the code for this project in this github link.
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