Merge pull request #6 from oslabs-beta/pete/dotenv

ashleybisram · web-flow · commit 8cfcbce61524 · 2025-01-22T13:31:58.000-05:00
updated UserModel.ts file to use dotenv for URI privacy. installed do…
diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# This is an example .env file for you to create in order to insert your private URI for /electron
+# Your .env file should live in the root directory for the current configuration used in UserModel.ts
+MONGO_URI='<MongoDB-URI-for-private-User-DB-here>'
diff --git a/electron/models/UserModel.ts b/electron/models/UserModel.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import 'dotenv/config';// Imported dotenv to process env files to protect our URI 
 // Insert the MongoDB URI for your private User database in place of the example URI provided below.
-const MONGO_URI = 'mongodb+srv://chronoschild15:Codesmith999@cluster0.abrbjlj.mongodb.net/';
+const MONGO_URI = process.env.MONGO_URI;//URI from .env file in electron folder root directory 
 
 const mongoose = require('mongoose');
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "d3": "^7.8.5",
     "dat.gui": "^0.7.9",
     "docker": "^0.2.14",
-    "dotenv": "^16.0.3",
+    "dotenv": "^16.4.7",
     "electron-devtools-installer": "^3.2.0",
     "electron-fetch": "^1.9.1",
     "electron-log": "^5.0.0-beta.23",

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@`
	`1`	`+# This is an example .env file for you to create in order to insert your private URI for /electron`
	`2`	`+# Your .env file should live in the root directory for the current configuration used in UserModel.ts`
	`3`	`+MONGO_URI='<MongoDB-URI-for-private-User-DB-here>'`