Question about environment variables

[tepid prairie]

I have a question about Railway environment variables. I am deploying a flask app with postgresql to Railway App, and setting up env variables. Does these variables depends on the variables that are used while developing the app? Or vice versa?

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[serene crag]

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[marsh dock]

Does these variables depends on the variables that are used while developing the app? Or vice versa?
mind explaining what you mean by that?

[tepid prairie]

I have some configuration file and .env file in flask that contains some SECRET_KEY and database url.

Does these depends on railway env variables?

[marsh dock]

I'm still not sure what you mean by "depends on railway env variables"

when deploying your app on railway, everything that would normally go in your .env file would go in your Service Variables, that way Railway can add these environment variables into your app

( Keep in mind though, Railway doesn't create a .env file for you, neither should you have a .env file in your production app )

[tepid prairie]

so I should not use the environment variables from Railway in my code?

?

[marsh dock]

what environment variables from Railway?

[static rain]

You’re going to have to be more clear, I don’t know what you mean by “do these variables depend on the variables that are used while developing the app”

if you mean “will the environment variables be the same as what they are locally”, then no. Not unless you set them yourself