Storing variables to be ignored by git in a js file?

[CFenner]

@timogden I’ve created a module to extract the config so you don’t need to maintain your own whole MM fork: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/16224/mmm-personalconfig-persist-personal-config-to-github/1

A way to achieve what you want could be to create your own copy of personal config with your mirror config. Then make a clone of if for your friend where you do the specific changes. Changes to your repo then can be pulled to the other one via Pull requests.
In combination with MMM-UpdateNotification with can pull updates automatically, your friend won’t need to do anything.

[TimOgden]

@sdetweil Ok, implementing @sdetweil 's suggestions, I have created a working version. This is my workflow.

// config/dictionary.txt
// This is a list of key-value or string-replacement pairs
"{latitude}"    :    "40"
"{longitude}"    :    "-70"

// installers/copy-values.sh
// sed command found here: 
// https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/269368/string-replacement-using-a-dictionary
cd ~/MagicMirror
cp config/config.model.js config/config.js
sed '
s|"\(.*\)"[[:blank:]]*:[[:blank:]]*"\(.*\)"|\1\
\2|
h
s|.*\n||
s|[\&/]|\\&|g
x
s|\n.*||
s|[[\.*^$/]|\\&|g
G
s|\(.*\)\n\(.*\)|s/\1/\2/g|
' config/dictionary.txt | sed -i -f - config/config.js

DISPLAY=:0 npm start

Now I can have separate dictionary.txt files on both machines for any local important information, which I will add to .gitignore. I will continue to modify config.model.js, and config.model.js will be copied and cleaned up with all the right values before every start of the mirror.

[TimOgden]

@timogden Also, I should add that there is nothing fancy about the strings on the left-hand side of my dictionary.txt. That’s just how I decided to distinigush them. This is how I would write my config.model.js file now:

// config/config.model.js
...
config: {
    lat: {latitude},
    lon: {longitude},
    apiKey: {API_KEY},
}
...

[sdetweil]

@timogden cool… I would just use them where u need them in any module in the template.

and then replace all…

also I would use the quoted on the left (and in the config.js template)
and the replace with or without as appropriate (so u can replace numbers without and text with quotes)

using the quotes means u can run npm run config:check and not get errors