Hopefully this saves someone some time (might be good to add the official documentation because I fell for this once in January and again today - although I realized faster why things weren’t working). Question: I overwrite some of my environment variables in my netlify.toml file, for my staging …

Netlify.toml context env variables do not apply to functions

hrishikesh July 17, 2021, 12:39pm 23

There’s a plugin that does this job currently: netlify-plugin-contextual-env - npm.

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