Environment variables

https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/config-env?gen=2nd#env-variables

.env

OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx

or

firebase functions:secrets:set OPENAI_API_KEY

Read from Env

read from inside the cloud function

process.env

read from secret

 onRequest(
  { secrets: ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] },
  (req, res) => {
	process.env

deployment

at deployment, firebase sends the .env file to firebase servers

v1

Tell firebase to save a token/key on our behalf so that we can access it by reference in code, without writing the actual key in code and in git as a result.

firebase functions:config:set sendgrid.key="...." sendgrid.template="TEMP"

Read from Env

Firebase exposes the tokens/keys in an object we get through the config() method.

const API_KEY = functions.config().myKey