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Setting up the .env file and Git Ignore File

Understand how to set up the .env file to store sensitive data like database URLs and secret keys securely. Learn to configure the .gitignore file properly to exclude sensitive files and dependencies from Git version control, ensuring a clean and secure project setup.

Setting up the .env file

Previously, we discussed what the .env (environmental variables) file is all about. To recap, it’s a text file that contains credentials we want to keep secret and ...