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Most developers are familiar with the standard environment file flow:

If your application must work in an offline environment (e.g., an IoT device, a ship, or a secure government facility), you might prepopulate caches, mock external APIs, or use local fallbacks. These settings should only be active when NODE_ENV=production and you are on a specific approved machine. .env.local.production

The framework loads .env.local first (lower priority) and then .env.production.local (higher priority). Variables from the production-local file will win. Most developers are familiar with the standard environment

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