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Theo's Typesafe Cult3y ago
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rovrav

NODE_ENV exposed to the client? Is that okay?

I'm getting ready to test a live app using the t3 stack but basically I want my api routes to switch between localhost for dev and the actual url for live testing.

the env.mjs puts the NODE_ENV as a server variable and I'm not sure why that is the case

below is the code that I'm referring to

import { z } from "zod";
import { createEnv } from "@t3-oss/env-nextjs";

export const env = createEnv({
  /**
   * Specify your server-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
   * isn't built with invalid env vars.
   */
  server: {
    DATABASE_URL: z.string().url(),
    DIFF_BOT: z.string(),
    OPEN_AI: z.string(),
    NODE_ENV: z.enum(["development", "test", "production"]),
    STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: z.string(),
    STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET: z.string(),
    SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY: z.string(),
    RESEND_KEY: z.string(),
  },

  /**
   * Specify your client-side environment variables schema here. This way you can ensure the app
   * isn't built with invalid env vars. To expose them to the client, prefix them with
   * `NEXT_PUBLIC_`.
   */
  client: {
    NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL: z.string().min(1),
    NEXT_PUBLIC_ANON_KEY: z.string().min(1),
    NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY: z.string(),
    NEXT_PUBLIC_PROD_URL: z.string(),
  },

  /**
   * You can't destruct `process.env` as a regular object in the Next.js edge runtimes (e.g.
   * middlewares) or client-side so we need to destruct manually.
   */
  runtimeEnv: {
    DATABASE_URL: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
    NODE_ENV: process.env.NODE_ENV,
    NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL,
    NEXT_PUBLIC_ANON_KEY: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY,
    DIFF_BOT: process.env.DIFF_BOT,
    OPEN_AI: process.env.OPEN_AI,
    NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY:
      process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY,
    STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY,
    STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET: process.env.STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET,
    SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY: process.env.SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY,
    NEXT_PUBLIC_PROD_URL: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PROD_URL,
    RESEND_KEY: process.env.RESEND_KEY,
  },
});


If I just make NODE_ENV public will I cause any problems?
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