Process is not defined when trying to access strapi locally

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you wouldn’t use it there, it’s in the config directory

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you pass the env vars to the plugin config and the plugin reads those

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Create a new config file at ./config/env/production/plugins.js and set the var in there then try running Strapi using yarn develop vs NODE_ENV=production yarn develop and log out the config in the plugin and see the differences

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this is where we describe the environment system: Environment variables | Strapi Documentation

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Im not sure if that helps in my case though

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The issue I’m having is that process comes back as undefined in strapi

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and if I set the env vars in the config how can I access them without that?

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strapi.config.get('plugin.pluginName') I believe off the top of my head

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^ that is only in the backend though, not the admin

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So if I want to use an env variable in the bootstrap step

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I need to create a plugin

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set the env variable in the config

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then call that during bootstrap?

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No you can just use the env() functions but it depends on what you are doing

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env() comes from our utils package.

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how can I use env() in the bootstrap phase?

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I could find a way to do this

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something like this, difficult to see because of the startup logging but:

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there are several sub functions to env() to do casting of the values into different formats, I’d suggest looking at this docs if you need something other than strings: Environment variables | Strapi Documentation

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Ahh thats probably what I need