next.js/examples/with-now-env/README.md

Now-env example

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example with-now-env with-now-env-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-now-env with-now-env-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-now-env
cd with-now-env

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

now

keep in mind that in order to deploy the app to now the env secrets defined in now.json should be listed in your account

The idea behind the example

This example shows the usage of now-env, it allows to use secrets in development that will be replaced in production by the secrets defined with now