Im tring to build my ReactApp using an environment variable system.
Following online guides, I've create two different files
.env.developtment and .env.production
using the syntax for variables:
REACT_APP_BASE_SERVER_URL=myapp/
During development (using npm start to start the server), development file is loaded perfectly and all variable are stored in process.env global.
Unfortunally after compiling it with webpack, process.env is empty.
Im compiling my code with:
./node_modules/.bin/webpack --config webpack.config.js --env.production --progress --env.NODE_ENV=production --colors
and in my webpack there is no process.env override (using DefinePlugin is the common mistake).
Following a similar question on this site, I've tried to put this command in the config to avoid any process override:
node: {process: false}
but with this process.env will be totally undefined instead of empty ( {} ).
Is it possible to use this kind of environment system or .env files are only supported with npm build?
Sending the env as an argument does not set the application environment. Said so, I considering you are doing it inside your config. What would set up few env values is the option mode as development or production, which is available on webpack4 (You do -p or -d for the previous versions).
I dont know why you said using webpack.DefinePlugin is a common mistake. I have been using it and it works very well.
In last case, if you are sure you process.env should not be empty I would suggest you to do the syntax process.env["expected_attr"].
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I'm trying to use Vite for a React project. I need to configure Vite so that when I run the dev server it places the runtime files in a particular directory (because the files are used with another runtime environment). The server config doesn't seems to have an option but I'm not sure if I'm missing something or it is in a different place. Thanks
It doesn't seem to be possible right now according to this repo discussion https://github.com/vitejs/vite/discussions/6108
Meanwhile, you could run the dev command along with the build --watch command to have both, but it would get slower
npm run dev & npm run build -- --watch
when I create a .env.local file in my project root, it's not setting up properly.
in the file, I have my API key like so
API_KEY=SOME_API_KEY
Then when i try to access it in getServerSideProps with process.env.API_KEY, it doesn't work. When I console.log(process.env.API_KEY) i get undefiend. Which I assume is because the file isn't set up properly?
I even tried installing dotenv but I know you don't need that with Next.js.
next config file
module.exports = {
reactStrictMode: true,
}
You’ll notice that the browser will log undefined. This happens since the environment variable is only defined on our server so far.
Since Next.js 9.4, Next.js will make all environment variables that start with NEXT_PUBLIC_ available to the client without any further configuration!
Create .env (all environments), .env.development (development environment), .env.production (production environment), .env.local (local enviroment)
Add the prefix NEXT_PUBLIC_ to all of your environment variables.
NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000/
Use with prefix process.env
process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL
Stop the server and restart it:
npm run dev
OR
yarn dev
.env.local works with +v9.4.
if you are using older version please try with next config file https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/environment-variables.
Note:
Next.js will replace process.env.customKey with 'customKey' at build time. Trying to destructure process.env variables won't work due to the nature of webpack
Restarting the server solved it for me as in #Igmer Rodriguez comment above .
This is my architecture and I want to access the.env file
I tried all the solutions, __dirname, find-config, ckey and read all the stack solutions. I can't understand why my .env file is not loaded....
console output is always :
{NODE_ENV: "development", PUBLIC_URL: ""}
If you're using create-react-app to bootstrap your application, the react-scripts module handles setting up environment variables for you. However, there's a catch. All React environment variable needs to be prefixed with REACT_APP. Thus, your environment variable would be: REACT_APP_MY_ENV_VARIABLE.
You should not import dotenv. After changing .env files, you must restart the development server. This is the excerpt from the create-react-app docs. The .env must appear in the root of your project.
Note: You must create custom environment variables beginning with
REACT_APP_. Any other variables except NODE_ENV will be ignored to
avoid accidentally exposing a private key on the machine that could
have the same name. Changing any environment variables will require
you to restart the development server if it is running.
You can read more about environment variables and .env files with create-react-app in the create-react-app documentation.
If you really need to set a custom path, you can use env-cmd. It requires small changes in scripts section like this:
// from
"start": "react-scripts start"
// to
"start": "env-cmd -f ./custom/path/.env react-scripts start"
I have a big project which I was trying to reduce in size using webpack-p according to here: https://hackernoon.com/reduce-webpack-bundle-size-for-production-880bb6b2c72f
I could not run it as I was encountering problems when running webpack -p (it threw an error on every function of index.js
I thought it might be something with my packages. I decided to create new create-react-app and run the command there. To my surprise, there I get the same error:
What might be the problem here?
If your app uses webpack v4 you must use webpack --mode=production instead of webpack -p.
Possible values for mode are: none, development or production.
Another usage:
// webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
...
mode: 'production',
...
}
You don't have a config file because the command you are trying to run is global, it is not getting from your current working directory. Run npm run build instead, which does that under the hood, but has a lot of other things created by the contributors of create-react-app.
You could pass a config file for the global webpack cli, but you don't have access for that in your folder since it is "not" available for your. npm run build also already applies a lot of optimizations for you.
I am doing server side rendering inside my react app. Inside of app I have a few pictures so i have loder for them inside webpack-config
{
test: /\.(gif|png|jpg)$/,
loader: 'file-loader?name=assets/img/[name].[hash].[ext]',
},
If I run my code this way
cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack --optimize-minimize --config webpack.config.prod.js,
I get an error
Warning: Prop `src` did not match. Server: "assets/img/profilna.1b1788096b2a10afe508dff672e50072.jpg" Client: "/assets/img/profilna.1b1788096b2a10afe508dff672e50072.jpg"
but if I run it like this
cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack --p --config webpack.config.prod.js,
everything is good and functions perfectly like I want.
Why is that?
As I read -p is equivalent of
webpack --optimize-minimize --define process.env.NODE_ENV="'production'"
Since I am already setting production enviroment I don't need --define
cross-env NODE_ENV=production
with this, you are setting Node process.env.NODE_ENV but is not "being passed" or used - while bundling - inside the app. Basically, you need to create global variables for the app and set NODE_ENV to what you need by webpack. And this is what...
--define process.env.NODE_ENV="'production'"
...does. It will use Webpack DefinePlugin to set global process.env.NODE_ENV to be used while bundling the app.
I know this sounds a little bit unclear, I struggled to understand it myself but hopefully, documentation will clear that out.
Technically, NODE_ENV is a system environment variable that Node.js
exposes into running scripts. It is used by convention to determine
dev-vs-prod behavior by server tools, build scripts, and client-side
libraries. Contrary to expectations, process.env.NODE_ENV is not set
to "production" within the build script
See "Specifying the environment" for an example.