---
title: "Quickstarts"
description: "Start managing developer secrets and configs with Infisical in minutes."
---

These examples demonstrate how to store and fetch environment variables from [Infisical Cloud](https://app.infisical.com) into your application.

## Set up Infisical Cloud

1. Login or create an account at `app.infisical.com`.
2. Create a new project.
3. Keep the default environment variables or populate them as in the image below.

![project quickstart](../images/project-quickstart.png)

## Fetch Secrets for Your App

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    The Infisical CLI is platform-agnostic and enables you to inject environment variables into your app across many tech stacks and frameworks.

    ### Set up the CLI

    1. Follow the instructions to [install our platform-agnostic CLI](/cli/overview).

    2. Initialize Infisical for your project.

    ```bash
    # move to your project
    cd /path/to/project

    # initialize infisical
    infisical init
    ```

    ### Start your app with environment variables injected

    ```bash
    # inject environment variables into app
    infisical run -- [your application start command]
    ```

    Your app should now be running with the environment variables injected.

    Check out our [integrations](/integrations/overview) for injecting environment variables into frameworks and platforms like Docker.

  </Tab>
  <Tab title="SDK">
    [Infisical SDKs](/sdks/overview) let your app fetch back secrets using an [Infisical Token](/getting-started/dashboard/token) that is scoped to a project and environment in Infisical. In this example, we demonstrate how to use the [Node SDK](/sdks/languages/node).
    
    Using Python? We have a [Python SDK](/sdks/languages/python) as well.
    
    ### Obtain an [Infisical Token](/getting-started/dashboard/token)
    
    Head to your project settings to create a token scoped to the project and environment you wish to fetch secrets from.

    ![token add](../images/project-token-add.png)

    ### Install the SDK

    ```bash
    npm install infisical-node --save
    ```

    ### Initialize the Infisical client

    ```js
    import InfisicalClient from "infisical-node";
    
    const client = new InfisicalClient({
      token: "your_infisical_token",
    });
    ```

    ### Get a value

    ```js
    const value = await client.getSecret("SOME_KEY");
    ```

    ### Example with Express

    ```js
    import InfisicalClient from "infisical-node";
    import express from "express";
    const app = express();
    const PORT = 3000;

    const client = InfisicalClient({
      token: "st.xxx.xxx",
    });

    // your application logic

    app.get("/", async (req, res) => {
      const name = await client.getSecret("NAME");
      res.send(`Hello! My name is: ${name.secretValue}`);
    });

    app.listen(PORT, async () => {
      console.log(`App listening on port ${port}`);
    });
    ```

    <Warning>
      We do not recommend hardcoding your [Infisical
      Token](/getting-started/dashboard/token). Setting it as an environment
      variable would be best.

  </Warning>
  
  Check out our [SDKs](/sdks/overview) for other language SDKs.

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