@mittonface/static-site-env v0.35.1-next.2

@serverless-stack/static-site-env

A simple CLI (@serverless-stack/static-site-env) that allows your static site to load the environment variables from your SST app. This means that you won't have to hard code the config from your backend.

Read more about how this works over on the ReactStaticSite doc.

View the @serverless-stack/static-site-env docs here.

Installation

Run the following in the root of your static site.

# With npm
$ npm install @serverless-stack/static-site-env --save-dev
# Or with Yarn
$ yarn add @serverless-stack/static-site-env --dev

Usage

Once installed, tweak the start command in your package.json scripts.

"scripts": {
  "start": "sst-env -- react-scripts start",
  "build": "react-scripts build",
  "test": "react-scripts test",
  "eject": "react-scripts eject"
},

Now start your static site as usual.

$ npm run start

Note that, you need to have sst start running for this to work.

How it works

Here's what's going on behind the scenes.

1. The sst start command generates a file with the values specified by ReactStaticSite's environment prop.
2. The sst-env CLI will traverse up the directories to look for the root of your SST app.
3. It'll then find the file that's generated in step 1.
4. It'll load these as environment variables before running the start command.

Note that, sst-env only works if the React app is located inside the SST app or inside one of its subdirectories.