Next.js: show in development, hide in production

May 8, 2021

Learn how to show content only in development and hide it in production in Next.js by checking process.env.NODE_ENV and conditionally rendering on that flag.

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I wanted to display some information on the website only if it was in development, on my local machine, and not in the deployed website.

Here’s how I did it:

const isDev = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'

{isDev && (
  <p>local only</p>
)}

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