How to deploy react application in a shared hosting and how to deal with the env variables stored in .env

Question

I am trying to deploy a react application in a shared hosting, but I am wondering how to deal with the env variables I stored in.env file. Such as api url for axios call etc. Should i create a.env file after building the react application?

Answer 1

Yes, you need to create .env file after create a react app and

You need to write .env with the REACT_APP prefix like

REACT_APP_BASEURL = 'url'

You can access them this code

process.env.REACT_APP_BASEURL

Hope so it will help you.

Answer 2

you can access them in this way :

process.env.BACKEND_BASEURL

in your .env :

BACKEND_BASEURL=http://example.com