12. Building a Website Builder from Scratch (Wix Clone) — Environment Variables & Zod Validation

🚀 Building a Website Builder from Scratch (Wix Clone) — Episode 12 Our backend needs a reliable way to manage and validate its configuration. In this episode, we introduce environment variables + Zod. 🛡️ We'll cover: 🔐 Adding our `.env` file 🧠 Understanding `.env` and its use cases 📦 Installing Zod ⚙️ Setting up Zod configuration 🧩 Creating our first Zod schema ✅ Validating environment variables with Zod 🧪 Testing and verifying that our validation works correctly We're starting to build a backend that fails early when its configuration is invalid. Backend-focused. Step by step.🔥 #WixClone, #WebsiteBuilder, #Zod, #EnvironmentVariables, #TypeScript, #NodeJS, #BackendDevelopment, #Fastify, #Git, #Docker, #PostgreSQL, #API, #SoftwareEngineering, #SystemDesign, #BuildFromScratch, #CodingJourney