.env Files

Vite automatically makes environment variables defined in .env files available at import.meta.env, see Vite's docs about .env files.

Note that:

• It only works for environment variables that are prefixed with VITE_ (for security reasons).
• It only works for files processed by Vite (all .page.js / .page.server.js / .page.client.js / .page.route.js files and all their imports). For files not processed by Vite (e.g. Express.js server code) we use some Node.js tool such as dotenv (all browser files are always processed by Vite):

  // server.js
  if (!isProduction) {
    require('dotenv').config() // npm install dotenv
  }