A question I'd like answered from anybody. Where do you store database information on the server?

All I'm looking for is a simple guide on the best practices regarding MySQL database interaction and Node.js, it's been a frustrating search so far. I'm using Sequelize as an ORM. Where and how do you store the credentials and access them in your Node application? Please don't just answer "in a directory that isn't a public directory", that's very obvious. I'd like to know how other people do it so I can make as secure an application as I can.

Submitted December 03, 2018 at 10:15PM by beefyjon