netlify environment variable & qwik

[glass harbor]

To use this in your Qwik e-commerce project, you can add the above code snippet to your serverless function file (typically in the functions directory) and modify it to fit your specific needs. For example, you can replace platform.log with your own custom code that uses the environment variables to hook up Square payments.

Once you have added the code to your serverless function file, you should be able to access the environment variables set in Netlify using process.env.<variable_name> within your serverless functions.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any further questions or need any additional clarification.

[oblique beacon]

Thank you for your response, if I understood corectly, the serverless function file that you are referencing is entry.netlify-edge? so far the steps I did are :

-create env variables in netlify ui
-install netlify cli globaly
-pnpm run qwik add netlify-edge
Netlify-edge created entry.netlify-edge

also, do you have any idea on what type I should give to env ?

Binding element 'env' implicitly has an 'any' type.

export const onRequest = async ({ env }) => {
console.log(env.get('API_KEY'));
};

[glass harbor]

The serverless function file should be inside the functions directory, but if you don't have a specific function file, you can place the code snippet in the entry.netlify-edge file.

Regarding the type issue with env, you can provide a type definition to fix the 'any' type warning. You can define a custom type for the env object like this:

`type Environment = {
get: (key: string) => string | undefined;
};

export const onRequest = async ({ env }: { env: Environment }) => {
console.log(env.get('API_KEY'));
};
`
This defines a custom type Environment with a single method get that accepts a string key and returns either a string or undefined. Then, you can specify the env object's type as Environment in the onRequest function.

With these changes, your code should no longer show a warning for the 'any' type, and you should be able to access the environment variables set in Netlify using the provided env.get() method.

Let me know if you have any further questions or need any additional clarification.

[oblique beacon]

thanks a lot that was very helpfull, one last question should this console log show in netlify deploy log or in vscode?