Comment by Adam Kościelniak on "Using Vite to Serve and Hot-Reload React App & Express API Together" | Hashnode

Adam Kościelniak

May 18, 2023

I like this, but one problem with this solution: If I want to have variables for my backend like keys for my DB I have to use the VITE_ pattern which makes it also visible on the front-end :(.

Any solution for that?

noam honig

Creator of remult.dev

May 18, 2023

I solved that using 'dotenv'

And placing these variables in a .env file - like I would do in my node js server

import {config} from 'dotenv'
config()
console.log({ test: process.env["TESTING123"] })

.env

TESTING123=works

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