Secrets management: your .env file was never the plan
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Every project starts the same way. You need an API key, so you drop it in a .env file, add .env to .gitignore, and move on. Totally fine for day one. The problem is that day one becomes month eighteen, the .env approach quietly becomes your entire secrets strategy, and now you've got credentials sc…
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- 2026-08-23 09:35 · DEV Community — AI
Secrets management: your .env file was never the plan