Isn't setting process.env in Electron app

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I am running an electron application with webpack and it seems to be pulling in the values from the .env file, but process.env isn’t getting set.

I have placed the require(‘dotenv’).config() at the entrance to the application where webpack starts building, which is my where all my vendor files live.

If I set a variable to the result of the require, it stores my variables, but when I go to use them only my Node_ENV variable is available.

.env

GAUTHID=secretID

vendor.js

module.exports = function() {
require('dotenv').config();
//lots of modules loaded in below
}

home.js

console.log(process.env)

logs => {NODE_ENV: ‘Development’}

Wondering why it seems to access the values fine, but isn’t saving them. I’ve tried different locations, using .load(), but all have no effect.

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fccommented, Oct 1, 2018

I’m also using electron-react-boilerplate and in webpack.config.main.prod.js, I added the following to inject the dotenv vars into webpack at build time:

import dotenv from 'dotenv';

/* webpack stuff */

    new webpack.EnvironmentPlugin({
      NODE_ENV: 'production',
      ...dotenv.config().parsed // <-- this line
    }),

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maxbeattycommented, May 31, 2016

I got dotenv working with that stack here. I’m very much so a webpack newbie. As I understand what was happening, their use of DefinePlugin to specify process.env overwrote everything in node’s original process.env (hence only seeing NODE_ENV). Closing as a configuration issue.

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