Stored configuration/environment variable support

[desmondmorris]

It would be nice to have a way of storing and associating key/pair settings within my account. These settings would then be available as env variables and accessible via process.env within hooks I have ownership of.

Use case: Lets say I want to write a hook that talks to an api. I do not want to pass the api key as a query param or post data to the hook. I would instead grab it from the env var.

An example - https://gist.github.com/desmondmorris/aa4628375ba9b38adffb

[Marak]

I understand. Environment variables for hooks is a pretty critical feature.

I'm glad someone requested it! I should be able to have something working by early next week. I'll update this issue when env vars are online.

[Marak]

@desmondmorris - I've gone ahead and added the ability to set environment variables for hooks.

You can set key / value pairs for the Hook Environment by visiting http://hook.io/env

Once a pair is defined here it will be accessible to all of your hooks through Hook.env.

I tested it out and everything appears to be working. Try it out on the live site and let me know if this is working for you.

I choose Hook.env over process.env to help ensure future compatibility with our virtualization strategy and to keep things a bit more organized.

[desmondmorris]

whoa. that was fast. when do you sleep?

I will give this a go today.

[Marak]

It only took about an hour.

The Big application framework ( which hook.io is built on ) has gotten much
more mature.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Desmond Morris notifications@github.com
wrote:

whoa. that was fast. when do you sleep?

I will give this a go today.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#2 (comment).

[desmondmorris]

I switched out process.env for hook.env here and confirm that this is working. This is great. Thanks

(i will take another look at the Big stack. Its been a while since I checked it out)

[Marak]

Awesome! Thanks for your contribution.