thanks for this! I'll take a look.

I briefly took a look at some APIs, but didn't really feel that comfortable using it 😅

I was hoping for a primer I guess before jumping into things. Idk a quick overview of how things should work, but maybe I should just mess around with the api and see what happens

I guess this is particular to my setup, but since I'm using vercel on the front end for nextjs I just do it on their website. This is great if your website is all static.

server side I usually just use an ec2 instance. On there I usually use systemd unit file to run my server. In the unit file I put all my env. variables. But in code I just use dotenv github.com/motdotla/dotenv