Environment Configuration with the Firebase CLI
Learn to set and retrieve environment variables in Firebase CLI.
Before file-based environment configuration support was released in firebase-functions v3.18.0
, the recommended approach for environment configuration was via functions.config()
. This made it possible to store, retrieve, and access data for each Firebase project.
Set environment configuration with the Firebase CLI
To set environment variables via the Firebase CLI, we must use the firebase functions:config:set
command. This uses a key-value
pair syntax similar to regular JavaScript objects, making it easy to group related configurations:
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