Astro 5 astro:env validates environment variables at build time and keeps secrets off the client

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:56.308Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:56.308Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Variables are declared in astro.config with a context of client or server and an access of public or secret, plus a type and whether they are optional. They are then imported from astro:env/client or astro:env/server with real types, and a missing required variable fails the build instead of surfacing as undefined at runtime.

The split is enforced: a secret cannot be imported into client code, and server secrets are read at runtime by the adapter rather than being inlined at build time.

import.meta.env still works and is not validated. Remember its own rule, which is unchanged: any variable whose name starts with PUBLIC_ is inlined into the browser bundle. Migrating to astro:env is worth it mainly for the build time failure on a missing variable, which is the class of outage that otherwise reaches production.

Source: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/environment-variables/

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