From 1ecb7a2a8c4ed1ba58b4e75a1f612142f6dac10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pasan Missaka <psn.missaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:37:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added the .env_sample and instructions in the readme to
 configure it

---
 .env_sample   |  1 +
 .gitignore    |  3 +++
 README.md     | 10 ++++++++++
 lib/client.js |  1 +
 package.json  |  4 +++-
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .env_sample

diff --git a/.env_sample b/.env_sample
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5181d91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env_sample
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+SENDGRID_API_KEY='<INSERT YOUR API KEY HERE>';
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e42f508..53e3aae 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# environment variables
+.env
+
 # Logs
 logs
 *.log
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index aa8ec03..a5bd493 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ All updates to this library are documented in our [CHANGELOG](https://github.com
 
 - Node.js version 0.10, 0.12 or 4
 
+You need to have a API key to use the app. To configure the API key in the environment variables follow these steps.
+ - create .env file in the root directory of the project.
+ - Copy the contents of .env_sample file in to the .env file
+ - Once you have obtained the API key, find the environment variable SENDGRID_API_KEY and assign your API key as it's value.
+ As an example it should look like this
+ ```
+ SENDGRID_API_KEY='Ef34Gyt&dfPFC34G';
+ ```
+
+
 ## Install Package
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/lib/client.js b/lib/client.js
index 78d98c3..ad954c1 100644
--- a/lib/client.js
+++ b/lib/client.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 'use strict'
 
+require('dotenv').config();
 var https = require('https')
 var http = require('http')
 var queryString = require('querystring')
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5b1eda0..0dbc2b6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
   "engines": {
     "node": ">= 0.10"
   },
-  "dependencies": {},
+  "dependencies": {
+    "dotenv": "^4.0.0"
+  },
   "devDependencies": {
     "chai": "^3.5.0",
     "eslint": "^2.7.0",

From 61a647daa6924b9d2c8c9b749048dd189bb0faa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pasan Missaka <psn.missaka@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 09:21:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Changes to the readme according to the request

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a5bd493..613b59a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ You need to have a API key to use the app. To configure the API key in the envir
  - Once you have obtained the API key, find the environment variable SENDGRID_API_KEY and assign your API key as it's value.
  As an example it should look like this
  ```
- SENDGRID_API_KEY='Ef34Gyt&dfPFC34G';
+ SENDGRID_API_KEY='<YOUR_API_KEY>';
  ```