Run "gatsby develop" with a specific file of environment variables

[robertocerdasilva]

Hi, I have a question.

I have 2 files with environment variables:

.env.development
.env.staging

When I execute the command gatsby develop by default it takes the value of the environment variables that are in the file ".env.development". That's fine...

The question is: Is it possible through the gatsby develop command to consider the value of the environment variables that exist in ".env.staging" and not in ".env.development"?

I need to test in development and currently I have to manually modify the environment variables in ".env.development".

Thanks!!! :D

[LekoArts]

Hi!

You could use an environment variable to define this.

So when you run:

STAGING=true gatsby develop

Then process.env.STAGING is defined.

In your gatsby-config.js:

if (process.env.STAGING) {
  require("dotenv").config({
    path: `.env.staging`,
  })
} else {
  require("dotenv").config({
    path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}`,
  })
}