Netlify deploy error due to secrets scanner detecting PORT environment variable

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💬 Prompt: The Netlify deploy errored, with the following guidance provided:

Diagnosis

• The build was blocked by Netlify's secrets scanner, not by the bundler. See the scanner summary at line 74 and the explicit detection of the env var "PORT" at [lin...

✅ Result: ## Fixed failing deploy caused by secrets scanner false positive

The deploy was failing not because the app failed to build, but because Netlify's secrets scanner flagged the PORT environment variable as a leaked secret. The scanner found a value matching PORT inside third-party dependency files under node_modules (@babel/generator and caniuse-lite), which was just a coincidental numeric match, not an actual secret exposure.

Since a port number isn't sensitive information and this kind of incidental match commonly occurs with third-party packages, a netlify.toml configuration file was added at the project root to tell Netlify's secrets scanner to skip checking the PORT variable specifically. All other configured environment variables (GOOGLE_API_KEY, JWT_SECRET, MONGO_DB_URL) remain fully scanned as before, so real secrets are still protected.

This should allow the site to deploy successfully going forward without needing to remove PORT from the site's environment variables.

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