Environment Variables

Below is a list of environment variables used by Spacebar. You can set environment variables easily by creating an .env file in the spacebar-server folder, with the format NAME=VALUE with each on new lines.

Name	Value	Description
THREADS	number	Number of threads to run Spacebar on when using bundle. Make sure you've enabled RabbitMQ if using more than one
PORT	number	Port to listen on. Used by all components, including bundle. If using bundle, all components run under the same port
DATABASE	string	Database connection string. Defaults to SQlite3 at project root
DB_SYNC	bool	Unsafely synchronise database model on startup. Not recommended for use in production environments!
CONFIG_PATH	string	File path for JSON config, if not using config db table
WS_LOGEVENTS	boolean	If set, log websocket events except messages from gateway
WS_VERBOSE	boolean	If set, log websocket messages sent/received by gateway
WS_DUMP	boolean	If set, dump websocket messages sent/received to disk
CDN	string	Lowest priority value for public CDN annoucements
GATEWAY	string	Lowest priority value for public gateway annoucements
STORAGE_LOCATION	string	CDN storage location. File path or S3 bucktet
STORAGE_PROVIDER	"s3" or "file"	CDN storage provider
STORAGE_BUCKET	string	S3 bucket name
STORAGE_REGION	string	S3 storage region
DB_LOGGING	boolean	if "true" logs all SQL queries to the terminal
LOG_REQUESTS	filter	What requests to log, per response code (eg. -200 to log every non-200 response code, or 404 to log requests with a not found status code)