I have a NextJS app with a Django backend. The NextJS app is statically exported which the Django app redirects too.
When exporting, NextJS uses .env.production
by default, however when developing locally I'd prefer it to use .env.development
however I can't figure out how to specify that.
When running via npm run dev
it uses the proper .env
however there is limited info on if this is even possible to choose for the static export - I've just been switching the contents of the files as needed.
Thank you in advance!
When the command next dev
(npm run dev
) is run, Next.js sets the NODE_ENV
environment variable to development
(production
for anything else, e.g., export
) and will load the following files in top-to-bottom order:
.env.development.local
.env.local
.env.development
.env
So there's no need to specify that .env.development
should be used — it just needs to exist in your project's root directory.
.env.local
gets loaded in both development
and production
environments, but not in test
.
.env
gets loaded in all three environments.
Variables in .env*.local
will override the same variables in .env
, .env.development
, and .env.production
.