[Docs]: Playwright’s Best practices for handling .env file

[grajesh690]

Page(s)

https://playwright.dev/docs/test-parameterize#env-files

Description

Since playwright provides option to specify env file path in playwright configuration, it would be great that, if playwright provides guidance on the below

• Best practices on handling .env file
• Should .env file needs to be included .gitignore or we can commit the .env file without any creds or placeholders for creds
• In CI-CD how creds can be handled

[pavelfeldman]

Managing environment falls outside of the scope of Playwright, you can use a third party package dotenv as demonstrated in the example. Dotenv is a very popular library that comes with the best practices described outside of Playwright.