gatsby-plugin-config

Plugin for gatsby to handle environment variables with ease.

• [x] Handle empty strings
• [x] Strip out GATSBY_ prefix

Install

Install with npm or yarn

npm install gatsby-plugin-config dotenv -S

In absolute top of your gatsby-config.js:

// Initialize dotenv
require('dotenv').config({
  path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}`, // or '.env'
});

// And then you can use the config in gatsby-config.js
const config = require('gatsby-plugin-config');

Usage

Import the plugin with import

import config from 'gatsby-plugin-config';

GATSBY variables

Variables prefixed with GATSBY_ are accessiable from the client side by default. This plugin allows you to query them without the prefix.

// process.env.GATSBY_API_URL
config.API_URL

Empty variables

You don't have to match empty variables anymore like this:

if (process.env.GATSBY_IS_STAGING && process.env.GATSBY_IS_STAGING !== '') {
    // do something
}

You can now just do:

if (config.IS_STAGING) {
    // you're done
}

gatsby-config.js

Usage in files without module system (like gatsby-config / gatsby-node etc.)

const config = require('gatsby-plugin-config').default;

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    title: config.SITE_TITLE,
  },
};

Dotenv

You can keep separate dotenv files for each environment in the project root. See https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv for more details.

.env.development
.env.staging
.env.production

The format is simply .env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}

Troubleshooting

Please file a bug if any issues occour.