Peter Redecopp

I am giving node.js a shot and I am trying to work with the example files provided by Cycling '74 ( https://github.com/Cycling74/n4m-examples ). There is a component of the instructions that are a bit confusing to me and I am hoping someone can clarify for me.

I am specifically looking at the Twitter example, but I ran into the same issue when looking at freesound. Here I will quote the steps I am confused by from the 'README.md' file:

9. In this twitter folder, you should see a file name .env-template. This is

an environment file, it contains key-value pairs that other applications, like

10. Duplicate the .env-template file to a new file named ".env". It must be named

".env", not "my.env" or anything like that. Fill in this file using the keys

(It is unclear which of the keys Twitter provided me I should be using, and also where and how I should be formatting this key within the .env file)

I have an 'access token' and 'access token secret' from twitter, as well as the consumer API keys that were all generated when I created the app. I haven't worked with .env files before so I am not sure which key/token I am using and how I am writing that into the .env file. I am hoping someone out there more knowledgeable than myself can help me out with this! Thank you!

Hi everyone,

  I am giving node.js a shot and I am trying to work with the example files provided by Cycling '74 ( https://github.com/Cycling74/n4m-examples ).  There is a component of the instructions that are a bit confusing to me and I am hoping someone can clarify for me.

  I am specifically looking at the Twitter example, but I ran into the same issue when looking at freesound.  Here I will quote the steps I am confused by from the 'README.md'  file:

9. In this twitter folder, you should see a file name .env-template. This is
an environment file, it contains key-value pairs that other applications, like
Node, can load before running.  (check!)

10. Duplicate the .env-template file to a new file named ".env". It must be named
".env", not "my.env" or anything like that. Fill in this file using the keys
you got from Twitter.  (It is unclear which of the keys Twitter provided me I should be using, and also where and how I should be formatting this key within the .env file)

  I have an 'access token' and 'access token secret' from twitter, as well as the consumer API keys that were all generated when I created the app.  I haven't worked with .env files before so I am not sure which key/token I am using and how I am writing that into the .env file.  I am hoping someone out there more knowledgeable than myself can help me out with this!  Thank you!


Hi everyone,

  I am giving node.js a shot and I am trying to work with the example files provided by Cycling '74 ( https://github.com/Cycli

node4max-api-key-question

In case this happens to you... my computer defaulted to terminal for opening the .env -template file, so I couldn't see anything. I tried opening it with Visual Studio Code and now I can see everything.

   In case this happens to you... my computer defaulted to terminal for opening the .env -template file, so I couldn't see anything.  I tried opening it with Visual Studio Code and now I can see everything.  

node4max API key question