How to make a variable in .ENV not visible when requested?

Question

JavaScript

Hello! I am learning react and when creating a simple todo (more precisely, having already completed the process), I ran into an unpleasant situation - my API KEY, which I so diligently hid ...



it turns out to be visible in the Network tab:



I tried to google, but somehow it doesn’t work out. I find only the process itself, how to use environment variables, which I already did ... Tell me what to do, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The only way is not to give this key to the client. Make a method on the server that the client will access, and the server will make a request where necessary, passing the key.