Serverless Stack

I have searched through this slack channel and the site to see if anyone else has had the issue I am experiencing and I cannot find anything similar so here goes....

I have a frontend stack that uses ReactStaticSite and I pass 14 environment variables. They are all prefixed with `REACT_APP_`. The frontend is using a React site, but it was not created with `create-react-app`. I have added `@serverless-stack/static-site-env` to the frontend project and I have added `sst-env --` to the start command. I run `npx sst start --profile sandbox --stage sandbox` on my root project and then run `npm run start` in my frontend project. None of the `REACT_APP_` environment variables have values in the frontend project. Is this because I am not using `create-react-app`? If so, is there a way I can get these values passed to the frontend?

Hey <@U03GRRHSR55>, `REACT_APP_` is specific to CRA <https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/>

For most frontend frameworks, they don’t expose environment variables to JS, except for certain predefined format. For CRA, it’s `REACT_APP_*`. For Next.js it’s `NEXT_PUBLIC_*`. You’d need to find out what that is for the framework u r using.

The frontend is using React.js, but not CRA.