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Add note to restart the dev server after changing .env file (#6979)
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* Add note to restart the dev server after change .env file

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Co-authored-by: Ian Sutherland <ian@iansutherland.ca>
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MostafaNawara and iansu committed May 5, 2019
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> Note: You must create custom environment variables beginning with `REACT_APP_`. Any other variables except `NODE_ENV` will be ignored to avoid [accidentally exposing a private key on the machine that could have the same name](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/865#issuecomment-252199527). Changing any environment variables will require you to restart the development server if it is running.
> Note: You need to restart the development server after changing `.env` files.
`.env` files **should be** checked into source control (with the exclusion of `.env*.local`).

### What other `.env` files can be used?
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