update .gitignore to ignore .env file - #64
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Someone is attempting to deploy a commit to the JS Mastery Pro Team on Vercel. A member of the Team first needs to authorize it. |
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@adrianhajdin , 👋 This peaked our interest @Dwolla. We noticed that people are leaking their Dwolla API credentials in a .env file that are getting pushed to public repositories. We're wondering if you could remove these API credentials as well as merge this PR to add |
I noticed this earlier this week, that the .env wasn't added to the gitignore, luckily for me my repo isn't public, I later unlisted my .env from git them made all the necessary changes. Thanks for raising the concern. |
In the Quick Start guide one of the first steps is to make a new file called
.env. The gitignore does not ignore this file. This can cause credentials to be leaked if accidentally pushed up