#NEWARE Server

ship code

0. https://zeit.co/blog/easy-aliasing (optional)

1. Run yarn deploy to ship.

2. after testing deploy, set the alias to neware-posts like:

now alias https://neware-posts-THE_PROVIDED_URL.now.sh neware-posts

3. The new instance will be available at https://neware-posts.now.sh

secrets

Secrets are saved locally and not committed to git. Secrets are located in a .env file, and pulled into the app via the dotenv package.

# .env
GREETING=hi
NAME=hightops

example of use:

// index.js
var greeting = process.env.GREETING;
var name = process.env.NAME;

module.exports = function() {
  return `${greeting}, ${name}!!`;
}

To deploy secrets, we add them to Now like this:

now secret add greeting Hello now secret add name User

Then in the package.json, we reference the secrets while deploying. When the environment is built on Now then the secret values are updated.

"deploy": "now -e GREETING=@greeting -e NAME=@name"

Run now secret for help.

reference: [Configure secrets and environment variables with Zeit's Now](source: https://egghead.io/lessons/tools-configure-secrets-and-environment-variables-with-zeit-s-now)