Node.js

This guide will show you how to integrate the Doppler CLI into your Node.js application development and debugging workflow inside Visual Studio Code.

Prerequisites

• Doppler CLI installed locally and authenticated
• Created a Doppler Project for your application

Setup

Ensure you've authenticated the Doppler CLI so secrets can be accessed from your machine:

doppler login

Then configure the Doppler CLI to select which project and environment to fetch secrets from by running the following command from a terminal within Visual Studio Code:

doppler setup

Launch Configuration

Update your existing launch configuration by creating or setting runtimeExecutable to doppler and runtimeArgs to include the command for running your application.

A typical launch configuration object will look like the following:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "node: server",
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "runtimeExecutable": "doppler",
      "runtimeArgs": ["run", "--", "npm","start"]
    }
  ]
}

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Awesome Work!

Now you know how to inject Doppler secrets into your Node.js applications when developing with Visual Studio Code.