Dotenv

It is always a good idea to never include sensitive API keys within your server code. For these reasons we usually recommend using a .env file. Astra automatically loads them if they are present in the same folder into _G.ENV table so that it doesn't overlap with system's environment variables. You can also load your own file using the global dotenv_load function.

This is the load order of these files (They can overwrite the ones loaded previously):

• .env
• .env.production
• .env.prod
• .env.development
• .env.dev
• .env.test
• .env.local