But why? All hosting providers I can think of, provide a way to specify environment variables. Why make it more complicated than it needs to be? Environment variables: it's in the name, they're specific to an environment. It's illogical and a potential security risk to put something thats environment specific into something that is not (your source code/version control).
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Yeah, but you can commit something like this and generate the
.envfile upon build/deploy and set the values.But why? All hosting providers I can think of, provide a way to specify environment variables. Why make it more complicated than it needs to be? Environment variables: it's in the name, they're specific to an environment. It's illogical and a potential security risk to put something thats environment specific into something that is not (your source code/version control).