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Using Dotenv

  • We will use Dotenv to pass the api keys or other sensitive information
  • Read more here.

Install the plugin from npm​

npm i dotenv --save-dev

Create the .env file in your source directory​

  • This command will create a file in the root of your directory
touch .env.development
  • Open it and add your keys in
AIRTABLE_API_KEY=heythisisvedantskey

Add the following code in your config file​

  • In the gatsby-config.js
  • This goes right at the top above the module.exports line too
require("dotenv").config({
	path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}`,
})
  • and whereever you want to call the keys you can now use
process.env.AIRTABLE_API_KEY

Hosting on Netlify​

  • When you are hosting on netlify add the environment variables in the same format i.e
AIRTABLE_API_KEY=heythisisvedantskey