How to import a secret into my config file (node.js)

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Question:

help! how do i get this to work

{
  "server": {
    "host": "redacted",
    "port": redacted
  },
  "minecraft": {
    "username": "redacted",
    "password": "redacted",
    "lobbyHolder": "redacted",
    "accountType": "redacted"
  },
  "discord": {
    "token": process.env.token, <<<<<< this line here!
    "channel": "redacted",
    "commandRole": "redacted",
    "ownerId": "redacted",
    "prefix": "!",
    "messageMode": "bot"
  },
  "express": {
    "enabled": false,
    "port": 8880,
    "authorization": "authorizationHeaderString"
  }
}
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Hey @DylanK9 welcome to the forums!

Can you post a link to the website? It makes it easier to find the problem if it is somewhere else. This would help for other people to find it since I don’t know anything about node.js sorry.

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yea sure! sorry about that

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here is the link to the replit, couldn’t figure out how to edit the post haha
https://replit.com/@DylanK9/dsbb

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sorry but it’s not possible to use env variables in JSON format

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is there any way you would recommend then to hide those variables?

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Could you explain why? That’d make this answer a lot better.

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just use process.env.ENVNAME in the js file

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oooooh this is a minecraft bot i own a Minecraft bot but I don’t think that will work I done it once and it kept throwing errors at me

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that would mess up the rest of the code depending on pulling from the json file then no?

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explain what how can i explain that JSON doesn’t support env variables

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You could explain why it doesn’t support them, or provide an alternate option for them.
As a note, couldn’t they declare the ENV to a var, then pass the var to the JSON? If not, why?

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yeah merging a minecraft bot with a discord wont work I’m pretty sure but I could be wrong

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i guess you could call the variable at the top of the page using (const) and call the variable in the rest of the code for example const env = process.env.token then at the place where you need it just use env instead of the process thing

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right but as you said this doesnt work in json files

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no unfortunately it doesn’t