Heroku Environment mass export

README.md

Exporting sensitive data to Heroku's Environment

This script is ment to work with the node-config package, it will export whatever configuration data you set on the herokuOverride Object, as a JSON serialized string, onto the NODE_CONFIG environment variable on Heroku.

This results in the config package to use those values instead, thus enabling you to keep sensitive data out of your tracked files.

Usage

• Add env.js to your .gitignore file
• Edit it as per your needs
• Simply invoke using the node interpreter: node ./env

env.js

/**
 * @fileOverview Export passwords and sensitive shit to Heroku environment variables.
 */
var exec = require('child_process').exec;

var local = false;

var herokuOverride = {
  cookies: {
    session: {
      secret: 'xxx',
    },
  },
  crypto: {
    salt: 'xxx',
  },
  mongo: {
    user: 'user',
    pass: 'pass',
    database: 'dbname',
    hostname: 'where.the.fu:6666',
    uri: 'mongodb://user:pass@where.the.fu:6666/dbname',
  },
};

var jsoned = JSON.stringify(herokuOverride);
var re = new RegExp('"', 'g');

var cmd;
if (local) {
  cmd = 'export NODE_CONFIG="';
  cmd += jsoned.replace(re, '\\"');
  cmd += '"';
} else {
  cmd = 'heroku config:set NODE_CONFIG="';
  cmd += jsoned.replace(re, '\\"');
  // cmd += '" --app your-app';
}

console.log('Executing:\n', cmd);
exec(cmd, null, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
  console.log('Finished executing:', err, stdout, stderr);
});