Environment variables are undefined in route file

[rajat1saxena]

Following is my config/route.ts file and when I run this via Docker, the environments variables are not found. I am injecting SUPABASE_URL and SUPABASE_ANON_KEY in the docker container via command line.

export async function GET(request: Request) {
    console.log(process.env.SUPABASE_URL, process.env.SUPABASE_ANON_KEY)
    return Response.json({
        url: process.env.SUPABASE_URL,
        key: process.env.SUPABASE_ANON_KEY
    })
}

Response

{}

What am I doing wrong?

[icyJoseph]

Hi,

Is the .env file present at build time?

This function might be getting optimized into an static JSON file.

Try adding export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic' to the file.

If that fixes it, you need to learn on how to opt-out from this behavior, here:

• https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/route-handlers#opting-out-of-caching

[ansh]

This worked for me! I don't understand why this is required?

I was facing issue with Liveblocks (hopefully this helps someone in the future)