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Reputation: 1589

How to specify environment variables in loopback 4?

I found documentation for the previous version https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Environment-specific-configuration.html but I can't find a documentation for the version 4

There's something I'm missing or v4 doesn't yet support environment specific configuration?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 6766

Answers (2)

Jonathan Cardoz
Jonathan Cardoz

Reputation: 868

After breaking my head looking for documentation - these are the steps I used to handle environment configuration:

  1. Step 1: Install dotenv package

    npm install --s dotenv

  2. Add a .env file to the root of your project (server/.env). Sample format in this file given below:

    SampleKey=testValue

  3. Require this file from the index.js file (I placed this on line 2)

    // Addition of dotenv for access to process.env (environment variables) const dotenv = require('dotenv').config();

  4. You should be able to access keys from your file now as follows:

    console.log(process.env.SampleKey);

Upvotes: 14

Ashutosh Chamoli
Ashutosh Chamoli

Reputation: 1027

Loopback 4 doesn't support environment specific configurations yet. Check this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/53377667/3904327

You can follow this github issue for the same. https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/1464

Upvotes: 4

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