Accessing .env in expo
I am using create-t3-turbo template. How can I access .env file located in the root folder?
I've tried this without any results:
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Does running
yarn dev not pick up the .env file? Your with-env script should pick that file up. If it doesn’t you may need to adjust the .env path (currently is ../../.env, looks like).The problem is that it doesn't and I am not sure why. I know that expo only includes vars with prefix, so I made a bunch of test env variables with it, but it doesn't include them.
I’ve personally not tried the template you’re referring to, but it looks like expo has environment variable support baked-in. Since you can only access variables prefixed with
EXPO_PUBLIC_ anyway, you may just want to follow their docs and place an expo-specific .env file in the expo app’s path.Expo Documentation
Environment variables in Expo
Learn how to use environment variables in an Expo project.
Yeah, that's the simplest solution. Thanks!