4.3: Mastodon Bot - Environment Variables in Node with dotenv

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In this video, I cover the node.js "dotenv" package and show how to save API credentials as environment variables. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/tracks/mastodon/mastodon/environmental-variables-in-node

💻 Github Repo: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Mastodon-Bot

References:
🦏 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/about
🤖 Botsin.space server: https://botsin.space/about/more
💻 Mastodon API on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mastodon-api
💻 dotenv on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv

Videos:
🚂 Mastodon Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6byiVX7_Z1rclitVhMBmNFQ

Timestamps:
0:00 Hiding API credentials
3:10 Grab environmental variables
4:51 Add .env file to gitignore

Editing by Mathieu Blanchette
Animations by Jason Heglund
Music from Epidemic Sound

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