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# [What Are Environment Variables and How Can I Use Them with Gatsby and Netlify?](https://freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-environment-variables-and-how-can-i-use-them-with-gatsby-and-netlify?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

When starting to integrate 3rd party services into your application or website, you'll start to find it useful to have different environments, such as a development and production environment. How can we configure this so we don't have to directly e...

Apr 28, 2020 · 8 min read · freecodecamp.org  
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