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Introduction

In order to declare env vars for local development add a .env file to the root of your project:

touch .env

Any env vars declared in this file will be accessible to your views. To learn more you can check the Svelte documentation.

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Environment variables in production

Although it is possible to declare envs vars in the .env file for the production build, this is not a recommended practice. Instead declare env vars at runtime. Here’s how to do it for both the node and docker builds of a Latitude project.

NOTE: If a .env file is present at the root of a Latitude project during a build step, we will include it in the final production build. This is to ensure that the local production build works the same way the dev build does.

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Node build

For a regular production node build, declare env vars and secrets at runtime like so:

LATITUDE__PASSWORD=my_password node build

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Docker build

For a docker build, declare env vars and secrets at runtime like so:

docker run -e LATITUDE__PASSWORD=my_password <docker_image_id>

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Secrets

You can read more on source credentials in the sources section.