GitHub Session Secrets to .env

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Hello all,

I am wanting to set my MONGO_URI variable in my GitHub repo, as that is where it is being deployed from.

The issue is: I really do not want to have to go through the whole process of setting up a GitHub Action just to set this one environment variable.

Naively, I tried doing this in my .env file:

MONGO_URI=${{ secrets.MONGO_URI }}

Is there any way of doing something similar? Even some hacky way of hiding my .env file from public view in GitHub, so I can set the variable directly…

Any help is appreciated.

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Heya~!

Where are you hosting the site/app? Are you deploying with GitHub pages or using another service?

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Hi, there.

The app is hosted on Heroku. It is deployed using GitHub integration with Heroku.

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Thank you, for replying, but I have just found out Heroku have a config setting with environment variables.

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