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Local dev quickstart

This tutorial shows how to fetch a JSON secret and run your app locally with environment variables injected.

  1. Create a JSON secret
aws secretsmanager create-secret   --name my/local/app   --region us-east-1   --secret-string '{"DATABASE_URL":"postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/db","API_KEY":"abc123"}'
  1. Start your app with env-secrets
env-secrets aws -s my/local/app -r us-east-1 -- npm run dev
  1. Confirm variables are present
env | grep -E 'DATABASE_URL|API_KEY'