Help with regard to environment variables in a Next.JS project | Railway | Page 1

brave pine May 9, 2023, 6:17 PM

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Hi! First of all I wanna sayu that Railway is such a nice platform and it makes project prototyping and deployment so easy. Unfortunately I have a problem regarding a Next.JS app that I have deployed on Railway. I'm setting the environment variables from within the Railway platform for the app, but unfortunately it seems that I cannot access them from process.env.<name_of_the_environment_variable> from within the code. I am not using a Dockerfile. Does somebody have any ideas? Thanks!

lost gulchBOT May 9, 2023, 6:17 PM

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arctic terrace May 9, 2023, 6:19 PM

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I could be completely wrong, but for next, don't variables have to be prefixed with NEXT_ ?

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I think this explains it pretty good
https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/configuring/environment-variables

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brave pine May 9, 2023, 6:32 PM

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I think if you want them to be displayed in the front-end app, then you have to use NEXT_PUBLIC_ as a prefix, but I don't think it is related to my problem. I have tried setting the variables either way, and my code doesn't work when I try to access them in my app as process.env.<variable_name>

arctic terrace May 9, 2023, 6:33 PM

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arctic terrace I think this explains it pretty good <https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-you...

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brave pine May 9, 2023, 6:41 PM

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arctic terrace ^

I'm familiar with the link, but I don't see the point, maybe you can elaborate more?

arctic terrace May 9, 2023, 6:42 PM

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please familiarize yourself with the technologys you are using

#Help with regard to environment variables in a Next.JS project