How can I set my Jekyll environment to "development" with Netlify Dev?

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Hello! I’ve recently updated my netlify-cli to the latest version, and since there, the {{ jekyll.environment }} variable in my local sites is set to “production” by default, and I don’t find how to set it to development. The Jekyll docs hasn’t helped me. Thank you in advance.

win32-x64
node-v15.6.0
netlify-cli/3.2.3 (issue persist)
netlify-cli/3.4.0 (issue persist too)

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You can use netlify.toml to specify environment variables like this:

[build]
	context = "development"

[context.development.environment]
	JEKYLL_ENV = "development"

It works in Netlify UI, so I’d suppose that it works in CLI too.

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Thank you for your proposition, but it doesn’t work in this case.

The following setting works, but it will be applied in production too.

[build.environment]
  JEKYLL_ENV = "development"

This doesn’t change anything:

# Does not exist, just a try.
[dev.environment]
  JEKYLL_ENV = "development"
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You missed the context keyword, but that’s alright since it’s working now.

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I didn’t miss a thing. I have copied and pasted your code as is into mine, but the environment remains in production. Yes, it works with:

[build.environment]
  JEKYLL_ENV = "development"

But aren’t there other ways to separate the development and production environment?

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Well then, sadly I don’t know of any other way other than manually setting the EVs in your Netlify dashboard. What I suggested works for me in my Hugo website, so I thought it would work with others too.

At best, you could create 2 websites, connected to the same repo, and different EVs in the dashboard.

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Hey @jdbruxelles :wave:t2:

If you want to set an environment variable exclusively for netlify dev, I’d recommend just using a .env file. Netlify Dev respects .env files and injects the variables in local development :+1:t2:

JEKYLL_ENV=development

–
Jon

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Thank you, @jonsully. It works with/in .env file.

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