Hi all, I am having a problem with creating a ‘Deploy to DO’ button for my app on the APP Platform. I am having a socket.io/node.js application and I need to pass an environment variable on my client-side:
let socket = io.connect('https://some-url.com', {
reconnection: false,
transports: ['websocket'],
upgrade: false
});
I need to add an environment variable to pass the URL upon the deployment of the app. I tried with ${APP_URL} and with process.env.APP_URL but neither of those seems to work.
Thanks in advance!
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Hey all, I somehow managed to use a workaround and I’m sharing it here in case somebody faces the same problem. I used the following code:
let url = window.location.href;
const {hostname} = new URL(url);
let socket = io.connect(`https://${hostname}`, {
reconnection: false,
transports: ['websocket'],
upgrade: false
});
I am defining a variable to get the current URL, then I am using the URL constructor to extract the URL. I am then making a string with https://${hostname} to put the URL in use.
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