Update. My issue was that since my production was on Heroku, I needed to define the config variables via the Heroku CLI as mention in the Heroku docs here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars
Heroku does not read the .env file
Update. My issue was that since my production was on Heroku, I needed to define the config variables via the Heroku CLI as mention in the Heroku docs here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars
Heroku does not read the .env file