I am trying to use Netlify lambda functions but I need access to certain environmental variables. It does not seem like I have access to those variables that I set in my Netlify.toml, but only have access to the environmental variables set up in the Netlify UI. Is there no way to access variables wi…

joe - did you read through this already? [image] [Support Guide] Using environment variables on Netlify correctly Support Guides Last reviewed: August 2023 The preferred way to use environment variables in Netlify is to set them in our environment - be that in the Enviro…

I was stuck in the same issue some time back and unfortunately at the moment there is no way for the lambda to have access to the .toml environment variables. check Toml environment variable available to functions - #2 by ozdanborne

@perry This seems like a major shortcoming. I know I can use environment variables set in the UI – but that doesn’t answer my use case (or that of the OP) – because I can’t set the build context as an environment variable. So, I have what seems like an extremely common use case: I have an ecommerce…

Hi Jared, In theory, you know the context at build time - it is $CONTEXT as shown here: Build environment variables | Netlify Docs I’d think that means that your deployed function could know it, at build time, and embed the string (or related settings set based on the string) in the code we creat…

@fool Thanks for the reply. Took me a minute to grok what you were saying, but I think I get it. In my function, I could have something like const context = '__CONTEXT__'; and then, I could run something as part of the build command like sed -i -E "s/__CONTEXT__/$CONTEXT/" ./functions/func.js. That …

I understand 4Kb is plenty for you. It is not enough for many people to fit an authentication token in there like an SSH key, and I’ve heard from dozens of them and only one of you, so we’ll probably not move on this in the immediate future since you have a good workaround :slight_smile:

I’m hitting up against this as well. At least can use the sed approach for now but it does seem like a big oversight not to include CONTEXT in functions. Surely most people will need some way to switch api endpoints etc based on environment?

Also it’s worth pointing out that this is not a ‘good workaround’. It’s ugly. I use/need context in multiple different files within my multiple lambda folders and the sed mutation changes files in git when running build locally. I could restructure everything so I only have to sed a single file but…

“and I’ve heard from dozens of them and only one of you” This is… so not true… :grinning: There are more people who have trouble with this. Sorry, the proposed workaround is quite vague… Can you please explain the code a bit better? // package.json "scripts": { "build": "gatsby build -i -E "s/_…

This has been insanely complicated and time consuming but I will share the solution I’ve reached for now. For me I have 4 lambda functions each in their own folders that need to make use of the CONTEXT to switch between prod and dev api endpoints - fairly standard use case. Attempting to use sed to…

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joe - did you read through this already?

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