Right way to set up STRAPI_URL in .env

How do I use STRAPI_URL ? I have tried the following:

File .env:

STRAPI_URL="http://localhost:1337"

File .env.production:

STRAPI_URL="https://my-app.herokuapp.com/"

In nuxt.config.js I have first tried to set env property and the new runtime config:

env: {
  STRAPI_URL: process.env.STRAPI_URL || 'http://localhost:1337',
},

publicRuntimeConfig: {
  STRAPI_URL: process.env.STRAPI_URL,
},

Then I have also tried the url option:

strapi: {
  url: process.env.STRAPI_URL || 'http://localhost:1337',
},

It doesn’t work, $strapi is always doing calls to localhost:1337.

[Atinux]

@luixal you don’t need to require(‘dotenv’), Nuxt does it for you.

@baermathias This is a valid solution, keep in my mind that you may expose sensitive information to git if this file is not gitignore

[luixal]

@Atinux right, it isn’t need. I would assure I had to add it once, but I can confirm it’s working without 😃