Accessing private env variables from standalone scripts

[jirpok]

Hi guys,

I'm not sure how and where to properly expose (private) environment variables to make them accessible in the context of SvelteKit/Vite and also for various standalone scripts I use, mostly for seeding the database.

I'm currently exposing them under process.env:

import { loadEnvFile } from "node:process"

const load = (file: string): void => {
    try {
        loadEnvFile(file)
    } catch (e) {
        if (e.code !== "ENOENT") throw e
    }
}

const dev = "development"

export const mode = import.meta.env?.MODE ?? process.env.NODE_ENV ?? dev
export const isDev = mode === dev

// load in the same order as Vite
load(".env")
load(".env.local")
load(`.env.${mode}`)
load(`.env.${mode}.local`)

Is that reasonable? Are there any tricks for this?

[teemingc]

Vite actually has an export to load environment variables named loadEnv. We're using this under the hood too and that should give you similar behaviour. Once #15250 is merged, you should also be able to just use the SvelteKit APIs for your standalone scripts

[jirpok]

Oh wonderful, thank you!