Mismatch in Netlify and local docker containers

[smcalilly]

Description

From a chat working on the Courts project, where I had issues deploying to Netlify:

There is an issue with environment variables and the gatsby-source-google-docs package. My local environment requires different variables than what works on Netlify. Locally, my docker environment required these env variables:

• GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID
• GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET
• GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN

In deployment, the build requires a single variable, which contains the values from the above variables:

• GATSBY_SOURCE_GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN

At first, I couldn’t get the single variable to work locally. My local build worked when I changed the variables to match what’s required by the gatsby-source-google-docs package’s latest version. When trying to deploy a review app, the multiple variables would not work on the Netlify deployment.

I suspect that the different environments are using different versions of the gatsby-source-google-docs package. I don’t know how to dig into the deployment to find which version the deployment build uses, but this seems like something we need to figure out going forward. Has been a headache for me.

Steps to reproduce

• Clone the charges-app repo and try to run it based on the env instructions in the README + the credentials from the "Courts credentials" in LastPass.
• You should have issues related to gatsby-source-google-docs and Google OAuth tokens.
• Replace the GATSBY_SOURCE_GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN env variable with the three variables noted above. You'll have to remove the client_id and client_secret from the original variable, and then set those values to their respective GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET env variables. Then rename the GATSBY_SOURCE_GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN to GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN.
• Once you've changed the variables, run the app locally. This should work.
• Try to deploy a review app using the three variables instead of the one. This should not work.
• Try to deploy using the single GATSBY_SOURCE_GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN. This should work.

[hancush]

Migrate this issue to charges app and address using project time.

[smcalilly]

Closing this because I've opened an issue on the app's repo: https://gitlab.com/court-transparency-project/charges-app/-/issues/43