How to pass API keys in environment variables to Ember CLI using process.env?

Question

How do I pass environment variables from bashrc to Ember CLI. I imagine a situation where you need stripe api keys or pusher api-keys and you have them in your environment v

Answer 1

I want to make sure that my API keys are not checked in. As part of the build process, I copy a local config file to the config directory and load it into environment.js

In environment.js

try {
  var local = require('./local_environment');
  Object.keys(local.config).forEach(function(key) {
    ENV[key] = local.config[key];
  });
} catch(err) {
  console.log("config/local_environment.js not found");
}

In local_environment.js (not checked in, copied by build process)

exports.config = {
  SOME_API_KEY: 'key_here'
};