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Nat
Nat

Reputation: 749

Finding strange in using .env file value

I am encountering something strange here and hope to find out if I have missed anything. Here is the thing, I have a .env file with this value here:SITE_URL=http://localhost:5000 and when I tried console.log(process.env.SITE_URL), it returned undefined. But the strange thing is when I changed .env file value to REACT_APP_FETCH_URL=http://localhost:5000 and did a console.log(process.env.REACT_APP_FETCH_URL), it returned http://localhost:5000.

I am not sure what is going on? Any help greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Jayce444
Jayce444

Reputation: 9063

I'm guessing you're using create-react-app. In CRA you need to prefix your environment variables with REACT_APP_ in order for them to be accessible under provess.env.

You can check documentation about it here: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/

Upvotes: 1

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