If you are deploying your app to a VPS (like DigitalOcean or Linode) manually, you might not want to hardcode your production database password into .env.production (which is usually tracked in Git). Instead, you create a .env.local.production file directly on the server. The app will prioritize it, keeping your secrets out of the codebase. 3. Avoiding Git Conflicts
.env.production is often committed to version control if it contains non-sensitive data (like public API URLs). However, you should never commit secrets like database passwords, Stripe private keys, or AWS credentials. .env.local.production allows you to store these secrets on your production server without them ever touching your GitHub or GitLab repository. 2. Local Production Testing .env.local.production
When you run npm run build --mode=production , the system loads .env.production , then overwrites it with .env.local.production . If you are deploying your app to a
Leo’s own tool had betrayed him. Because of a file that should never have existed outside a laptop. the system loads .env.production
API_KEY=your_production_api_key_here API_SECRET=your_production_api_secret_here
# .github/workflows/deploy.yml - name: Create .env.production.local run: | echo "BUILD_CACHE_TOKEN=$ secrets.CI_TOKEN " > .env.production.local npm run build
Here is a production-grade template for managing your env files.