Summary

I have a create-react-app project with an environment file (.env) that contains the following line:

REACT_APP_VERSION=$npm_package_version

When running npm run start or pnpm run start, the variable gets populated with the correct version number from the package.json. When running rushx start, this does not work. The environment variable stays empty.

Repro steps

Setup a new Rush installation with a single project inside, only containing a package.json with the following contents:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo $npm_package_version"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Then run the following command in that project:

rushx test

Expected result:

$ npm run test
> echo $npm_package_version

1.0.0

Actual result:

$ rushx test
> "echo $npm_package_version"

Details

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