Configure App Environments

[mackcooper1408]

There's not much to add here until these issues (#22 and #23 are done)

Context

In order to deploy our application and work with containerization tools like Docker, we'll need some extra configuration to use certain Environment variables. The easiest option for making this work is via a secret .env file that will not be checked into git version history.

Definition of Done

1. environment configuration is complete for front and back end with the app now pulling key variables like "Environment", "Database URL", etc. from an "ENV" file (.env)
2. env configuration has appropriate defaults for working with the app in development
3. .gitignore is updated to not check the env file into git history
4. README is updated with details on how this config is setup and what variables may be useful (if any at this point) to add to your local .env

Engineering Details

• see this doc for details on completing the setup in FastAPI.
  • Also, take a look at how the configuration is done in this template app
• it appears NEXT has native support for .env files... so yay!

[agennadi]

Done