All-in-one interactive CMS (Content Management System) and SCS (Structured Content Server) based on Strapi.
Apart from scaffolding in the normal way, with yarn create strapi-app my-project, (without using the --quickstart Sqlite option), and then creating an initial admin user, there are two points of customization:
- MongoDB is used for development mode, instead of Sqlite
- As a result I have added support for using
.envfor server and database configuration, even in development mode
I have followed instructions in this repo based on this Strapi issue .env file is not respected #3558
In my case I am using two extra packages in my package.json:
"dotenv": "^6.2.0", "find-config": "^1.0.0",And using the bootstrap function (top of the file) to preload my .env before strapi starts:
require('dotenv').config({ path: require('find-config')('.env') });
from @derrickmehaffy's comment
While .env is of course not tracked, I do include an .env.sample file for reference.
The local file .env is used by development too, since config/environments/development/server.js and config/environments/development/database.js use process.env.{VAR}.