Juicebox Multi-Environment Setup

Overview

Juicebox AI analysis requires environment separation to enforce workspace isolation, control data access, and prevent accidental exports of sensitive datasets. Development works with sample datasets and strict result limits for fast iteration, staging connects to full production data but disables export functionality, and production enables all features with full export capabilities. Each environment uses isolated workspaces so analysis experiments in dev never affect production workspace state or user-facing reports.

Environment Configuration

const juiceboxConfig = (env: string) => ({
  development: {
    apiKey: process.env.JB_KEY_DEV!, baseUrl: "https://api.dev.juicebox.work/v1",
    workspaceId: process.env.JB_WORKSPACE_DEV!, resultLimit: 5, exportEnabled: false,
  },
  staging: {
    apiKey: process.env.JB_KEY_STG!, baseUrl: "https://api.staging.juicebox.work/v1",
    workspaceId: process.env.JB_WORKSPACE_STG!, resultLimit: 20, exportEnabled: false,
  },
  production: {
    apiKey: process.env.JB_KEY_PROD!, baseUrl: "https://api.juicebox.work/v1",
    workspaceId: process.env.JB_WORKSPACE_PROD!, resultLimit: 50, exportEnabled: true,
  },
}[env]);

Environment Files

# Per-env files: .env.development, .env.staging, .env.production
JB_KEY_{DEV|STG|PROD}=<api-key>
JB_WORKSPACE_{DEV|STG|PROD}=<workspace-id>
JB_BASE_URL=https://api.{dev.|staging.|""}juicebox.work/v1
JB_EXPORT_ENABLED={false|false|true}
JB_DATASET_SCOPE={sample|full|full}

Environment Validation

function validateJuiceboxEnv(env: string): void {
  const suffix = { development: "_DEV", staging: "_STG", production: "_PROD" }[env];
  const required = [`JB_KEY${suffix}`, `JB_WORKSPACE${suffix}`, "JB_BASE_URL"];
  const missing = required.filter((k) => !process.env[k]);
  if (missing.length) throw new Error(`Missing Juicebox vars for ${env}: ${missing.join(", ")}`);
}

Promotion Workflow

# 1. Run analysis queries against sample data in dev
curl -X POST "$JB_BASE_URL/analyze" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JB_KEY_DEV" -d @test-query.json

# 2. Validate same queries against full dataset in staging (exports blocked)
curl -X POST "$JB_BASE_URL/analyze" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JB_KEY_STG" -d @test-query.json | jq '.resultCount'

# 3. Verify workspace isolation — staging results don't appear in prod
curl "$JB_BASE_URL/workspaces/$JB_WORKSPACE_PROD/reports" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JB_KEY_PROD" | jq 'length'

# 4. Deploy to production with export capabilities enabled
JB_EXPORT_ENABLED=true npm run deploy -- --env production

Environment Matrix

Setting	Dev	Staging	Prod
Dataset	Sample (100 records)	Full dataset	Full dataset
Result Limit	5	20	50
Export Enabled	No	No	Yes
Workspace	Isolated dev	Isolated staging	Production
API Tier	Free	Standard	Enterprise
Report Sharing	Disabled	Internal only	Full access

Error Handling

Issue	Cause	Fix
403 on export endpoint	Export disabled in non-prod env	Expected; exports only work in production
Workspace not found	Workspace ID mismatch for env	Verify JB_WORKSPACE_* matches Juicebox admin panel
Result limit exceeded	Query returns more than env cap	Reduce query scope or increase limit in config
Stale sample data in dev	Dev dataset not refreshed	Run npm run seed:dev to reload sample data
API key scope error	Key generated for wrong workspace	Regenerate API key in correct workspace settings

Resources

• Juicebox Docs
• Juicebox API Reference

Next Steps

See juicebox-deploy-integration.