How to structure configs with NodeJS and express?

Question

Apologies for the basic question but im very new to NodeJS and Express

I want to have separate properties (such as db connection strings or encryption keys etc) for my local, test and production environments

I was wondering what is the best way to do this? If anyone can point to a tutorial or any best practices it would be much appreciated

Thanks Damien

Possible duplicate of [How to store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5869216/how-to-store-node-js-deployment-settings-configuration-files) — Meirion Hughes, Aug 21 '16 at 15:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '16 at 15:44

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I would recommend dotenv which is an npm package to do exactly what you need.

answered Aug 21 '16 at 15:44

dwaksman

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '16 at 14:37

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Both dotenv and the config package will do the trick but I think I will go with the config package

Cheers Damien

answered Aug 22 '16 at 14:37

Damien

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