I'm working on a Python Angular app that integrates Gmail API. I have 3 JSON files for token, credentials, and a specific file which I need to authenticate the Gmail API so my app can generate emails to send to email addresses via OAuth2. I got my app to work using the credentials. I've been wondering about this question.

Is there a way to store those files without committing them to GitHub? I want to host this app on the Heroku platform but I don't want to compromise that by including those JSON files which contain the secret client key, ids, etc.

CodePudding user response：

Environment variables. Here's a Heroku guide: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars

How to use them locally, depends on your OS and/or shell you're using. It can be a .bashrc file (or .zshrc or another one like that) in your home directory, it could be something clickable in Windows.

CodePudding user response：

If those values do not change, you can use Heroku config vars, otherwise I suggest trying MongoDB. Here's some guides I found:

• Integrating MongoDB cloud with Python app: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/getting-started-with-python-and-mongodb
• Getting started with heroku config vars: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars