config. js file, add an externals options and set its value to an object containing the config data. Then in your JavaScript file, access the ConfigData object by importing it as an external module.
To read a text file in React, we can use the FileReader constructor. to define the showFile function that gets the selected file from e. target.
With webpack you can put env-specific config into the externals
field in webpack.config.js
externals: {
'Config': JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? {
serverUrl: "https://myserver.com"
} : {
serverUrl: "http://localhost:8090"
})
}
If you want to store the configs in a separate JSON file, that's possible too, you can require that file and assign to Config
:
externals: {
'Config': JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? require('./config.prod.json') : require('./config.dev.json'))
}
Then in your modules, you can use the config:
var Config = require('Config')
fetchData(Config.serverUrl + '/Enterprises/...')
For React:
import Config from 'Config';
axios.get(this.app_url, {
'headers': Config.headers
}).then(...);
Not sure if it covers your use case but it's been working pretty well for us.
If you used Create React App, you can set an environment variable using a .env file. The documentation is here:
https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables
Basically do something like this in the .env file at the project root.
REACT_APP_NOT_SECRET_CODE=abcdef
Note that the variable name must start with REACT_APP_
You can access it from your component with
process.env.REACT_APP_NOT_SECRET_CODE
You can use the dotenv package no matter what setup you use. It allows you to create a .env in your project root and specify your keys like so
REACT_APP_SERVER_PORT=8000
In your applications entry file your just call dotenv(); before accessing the keys like so
process.env.REACT_APP_SERVER_PORT
Actually in case if you have any file that has key value pairs like this:
someKey=someValue
someOtherKey=someOtherValue
You can import that into webpack by a npm module called properties-reader
I found this really helpful since I'm integrating react with Java Spring framework where there is already an application.properties file. This helps me to keep all config together in one place.
"properties-reader": "0.0.16"
const PropertiesReader = require('properties-reader');
const appProperties = PropertiesReader('Path/to/your/properties.file')._properties;
externals: {
'Config': JSON.stringify(appProperties)
}
var Config = require('Config')
fetchData(Config.serverUrl + '/Enterprises/...')
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