babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables

What is babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables?

The babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables package is a Babel plugin that allows you to inline environment variables into your JavaScript code at build time. This can be particularly useful for injecting configuration settings or other environment-specific values directly into your code, eliminating the need for runtime environment variable access.

What are babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables's main functionalities?

Inline Environment Variables

This feature allows you to replace occurrences of process.env.<VARIABLE_NAME> with the corresponding environment variable value at build time. For example, if you have an environment variable API_URL set to 'https://api.example.com', the code will be transformed to const apiUrl = 'https://api.example.com';.

const apiUrl = process.env.API_URL;
console.log(apiUrl);

Other packages similar to babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables

dotenv

The dotenv package loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Unlike babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables, dotenv does not inline the variables at build time but makes them available at runtime. This can be useful for applications that need to access environment variables dynamically.

babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables

This package is very similar to babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables. It also inlines environment variables at build time, but it might have different configuration options or support different versions of Babel.

README

babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables

Inline environment variables

Installation

$ npm install babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables

Usage

Via .babelrc (Recommended)

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["inline-environment-variables"]
}

Via CLI

$ babel --plugins inline-environment-variables script.js

Via Node API

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["inline-environment-variables"]
});