An environment variable in Node.js is accessed in your code using process.env.MY_ENV_VAR. We deploy your tasks and scale them up and down when they are triggered. So any environment variables you use in your tasks need to accessible to us so your code will run successfully.

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Setting environment variables

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Go to the Environment Variables page

In the sidebar select the “Environment Variables” page, then press the “New environment variable” button. Environment variables page
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Add your environment variables

You can add values for your local dev environment, staging and prod. Environment variables page
Specifying Dev values is optional. They will be overriden by values in your .env file when running locally.

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Editing environment variables

You can edit an environment variable’s values. You cannot edit the key name, you must delete and create a new one.
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Press the action button on a variable

Environment variables page
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Press edit

Environment variables page

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Deleting environment variables

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Press the action button on a variable

Environment variables page
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Press delete

This will immediately delete the variable. Environment variables page