Railway variable edits become staged changes that do nothing until they are deployed
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Adding, updating or removing a variable produces a set of staged changes that must be reviewed and deployed before they take effect. A variable that looks correct in the dashboard but is missing inside the running container is almost always an undeployed staged change, and it is the first thing to check before debugging the application's configuration loading.
Reference variables use a template syntax with double braces. Referencing another service's variable takes the service name and the key, referencing a project-level shared variable uses the shared prefix, and referencing another variable in the same service uses the bare name, which lets you compose a URL from parts.
Giving a frontend its backend URL by referencing the backend service's public domain variable is the documented way to avoid hardcoding environment-specific hosts. Variables are available during builds as well as at runtime, unlike private networking, which exists only at runtime.
Source: https://docs.railway.com/variables
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