.NET Core has the concept of the environment. An environment is basically a runtime setting in the form of an environment variable called ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT. This variable can take one of the following values (note that these are case sensitive):
- Development: A development environment, which probably does not need much explaining
- Staging: A preproduction environment used for testing
- Production: An environment (or as similar as possible) in which the application will live once it is released
To be specific, you can pass any value, but these have particular significance to .NET Core. There are several ways by which you can access the current environment, but you're most likely to use one of the following methods, extension methods and properties of the IWebHostEnvironment interface (add a using reference to the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting namespace):
- IsDevelopment...
