So far the path to the articles folder, where we host all of the markdown files, is hard-coded into our Next.js page component. In the long run, we wouldn't want to leave it like that. First of all to give greater flexibility in customizing the path if we ever decide to move it to another place, but also to make it more easily accessible by other parts of our Nx workspace libraries and apps.

This is a perfect use case for environment variables. In this lesson, we learn about how Nx, as well as Next.js, is able to read environment variables.

Prefer to read along as well? Here's the accompanying article.