Using different redirects across different contexts/environments

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@taras, @samajammin,

Although I don’t have a specific example, what you can do is make use of the $CONTEXT environment variable and pass it through to a script, as detailed here:

As a very small example workflow, we could “pass on” the $CONTEXT variable into a file that you can access at browse time, like this, during build:

npm run build && echo $CONTEXT > public/netlify-context.txt

In theory, you could:

  • Have different _redirects files, based on contexts (i.e. _redirects-prod, _redirects-prev)
  • In your bash script, look for a specific context and move the respective _redirects-[context] file to _redirects
  • Enjoy your sweet, sweet context-derived redirects :muscle:
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