Cloudflare worker env var problem
It's impossible to get public env var from client when it's on cloudflare worker? Like if I have a env var call
VITE_BACKEND_URL, it's impossible to get it from client?13 Replies
absent-sapphire•2w ago
can you share a complete reproducer project please?
we do have a cloudflare example now in the router repo so you might just use this as a basis
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
I've seen that example, but it seems like it just demonstrates getting env var by calling server function, but not directly gets it from the client (i.e. retrieve it from process.env or import.meta.env)
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
The project I'm working on is https://github.com/normalid-awa/ipsc-scoreboard but it might be a bit messy as I'm struggling on this issue
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harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
My current direction is to inject the env var in to
globalThis object on client but I don't really know where should put the code, so that it runs on the first place before anything uses env var (api services initializations).absent-sapphire•2w ago
where is the env var coming from?
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
Defined in cloudflare dashboard, the env var is available on server, but not on client
absent-sapphire•2w ago
so is it accesible on the server then?
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
Yes, all env var is accesible on server, but not on client
absent-sapphire•2w ago
makes sense though , right?
you need to explicitly make them available on the client
if you dont know them at build time, you can't integrate it statically with the client build
so you could put it on the router context by using routers dehydrate/hydrate methods
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
I would try this, thanks for the advice
Well..., I've made a stupid mistake. It turns out vite bundle all env var in build time, and replace every
import.meta.env to the value it gets in build time, but cloudflare separate build time env var and runtime env var in to two settings, so setting the runtime env var can't do anything to the pre-bundled env var.absent-sapphire•2w ago
so it's working now?
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
Yep
The solution is to set the env var in build setting, not the runtime section
harsh-harlequinOP•2w ago
