Configure API_BASE_URL for React Apps and Other Single-Page Applications (SPA)¶

In a typical single-page application (SPA) frontend + REST API backend example, the frontend service would have an API_BASE_URL or similar ENV var which points to the backend service. How would we set something like this up with Uffizzi’s preview environments?

Each Uffizzi environment includes an environment variable UFFIZZI_URL which is available to all containers in the environment. It’s value is the public endpoint of the environment, so if you just have a backend API deployed there, that’s what you’d need to provide to your frontend. Note that this URL is dynamically created when the ephemeral environment is created.