.env not read so ${ENV_VAR} unusable in .yarnrc.yml

Describe the bug

I’m sure I must be doing something wrong, but I can’t get yarn to read the environment variables in my .env file, causing any yarn command to throw the following error when ${ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES} are used in .yarnrc.yml:

Usage Error: Environment variable not found (ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES) in [...]/.yarnrc.yml (in [...]/.yarnrc.yml)

Could it be that I have to configure something? The docs don’t seem to mention so.

To Reproduce

Clone this example repo and run yarn: https://github.com/lensbart/yarn

macOS 11.2.3 (20D91)
Node v14.16.0
Yarn version 2.4.1

Note: I didn’t use Sherlock because I thought this might interfere with resolving the .env file

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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arcaniscommented, Apr 9, 2021

Why not put them in your bashrc/zshrc/…?

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tavoynecommented, Jan 2, 2022

I agree. Typical use case is for NPM auth tokens that may differ from a project to an other. It’d be great if Yarn could read the .env file before performing any logic, or at least let us opt in for that behaviour (e.g. by explicitly specifying a path to the file in question). Can try to work on a PR if it’s a setting that you’d consider integrating @arcanis.

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