Use a hosted database with Zeit’s Now

You could also use a docker container to spin up your app with any database you want, right?

No, absolutely not! You have no control over the instance(s) where your app runs. Other than a small temp folder you cannot assume persistence of any file system writes, which means your database can and will fragment when autoscaling!

@mykola Is there a way to use .env? I believe on the zeit Slack I have seen the use of dotenv by having something like

cp dev.env .env && now && rm .env

or something along those lines. Has that improved?

Thanks!

That's a great question, I'll see if I can dig something up. I believe your package.json file can define now.env and have the keys -> values there be exported automagically, but obviously only do and commit this to your repo if you're using now secrets via @secretname as your values.

Hi there, your example is based on the mlab service. Would it be possible to do the same thing with Mongodb Atlas? Thanks