How to set .env variables?

[Tobjoern]

When building my nuxt app I need to specify additional environment variables, which determine the manner in which the app is built, namely the custom variable 'IS_BUILD_AS_RENDERER'.
When I didn't use nx, I'd just execute "cross-env NODE_ENV=development IS_BUILD_AS_RENDERER=false nuxt-ts".

Is there a way to set this variable using this plugin?

Thanks for your help.

[konrad-synergy]

I've got the same issue with vue, I'd expect that during build environment variables that are set in .env file are loaded and accessible like it was with the vue-cli-service cmd. Am I doing something wrong?

[konrad-synergy]

What I did to set env variables was:

1. I've installed webpack-dotenv module
2. In my frontend app, in the app root folder I've added configure-webpack.js file
3. I've added this configuration:

const webpack = require('webpack');
const Dotenv = require('dotenv-webpack');
module.exports = (config) => {

  config.plugins.push(
    new Dotenv({
      path: './apps/frontend/.env',
    })
  );

};

4. I'm building with command

export API_URL='http://api.com' && nx build frontend

And it worked. I still struggle with CI build, but that's another matter

[gregveres]

I am using environment variables in my app.
I have broken my large app into 3 different apps and for the dev environment, I use env vars to import the port number for the "other" apps.

Here is how I define the env vars:

In the app project directory, I create two files:
.env.development and .env.production.

In each of these files I define the variables I need:

VUE_APP_I18N_LOCALE=fr
VUE_APP_I18N_FALLBACK_LOCALE=en-us
VUE_APP_MANAGE=http://localhost:8081
VUE_APP_ADMIN=http://localhost:8082

Then in my code, I read the value:

 {
    path: '/Manage/:x+',
    beforeEnter(to: Route) {
      global.location.href = `${process.env.VUE_APP_MANAGE ?? ''}${to.fullPath}`;
    }
  },

Note that my env vars needed to start with VUE_APP because that's what the docs told me:

https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/mode-and-env.html#environment-variables