updates to securing user database

Author: kelsicw

electron/models/UserModel.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 require('dotenv').config();
 
 // INSERT URI TO MONGODB TO SET UP USER DATABASE
-const MONGO_URI = process.env.USER_DB_URI;
+const MONGO_URI = `${process.env.USER_DB_URI}`;
 console.log(MONGO_URI);
-// const MONGO_URI = process.env.CHRONOS_USER_DB_URI;
 const mongoose = require('mongoose');
 
 const userDB = mongoose.createConnection(MONGO_URI);

utilities/copyDist.js

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ fse.copyFileSync(
   path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist/package.json')
 );
 
+// Copy .env from root directory into webpack's /dist folder
+// so that the necessary env variables are available
+fse.copyFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env'), path.resolve(__dirname, '../build/.env'));
+
 // Copy tsc'd electron code from /build to webpack's /dist folder
 sourceDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../build');
 destDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist/build');