How to store the database password?

Question

Node.js

Good afternoon.

In some article on Habré about NodeJS, I saw that you should not store data for connecting to the database in configs and somewhere else.

How then to do it?

Answer 1

worth it or not depends primarily on the requirements for safety and the criticality of the loss.
do not want / can store in the config? no question:
there are environment variables;
there is a system storage of passwords in almost any system;
there are specialized vault storages;

Answer 2

ok Google, "node js store database password", well, or credentials, otherwise it gets there and how to store passwords in the database.