Fatal error when a variable with the same name as expanded variable is declared

[hpedrorodrigues]

Hey 👋🏻

Context

A RangeError (more specifically Maximum call stack size exceeded) is raised when we declare a variable with the same name as the expanded variable.

e.g.,

MY_VAR=${MY_VAR}

If we change the value to something else. It works just fine.

This is an issue in dotenv-expand, and it was fixed in 11.0.0 (more details in the linked issues).

Description

Even though the issue is already fixed in dotenv-expand, we still use version 5.1.0 here. https://github.com/IndexXuan/vite-plugin-env-compatible/blob/12cd100cdb9e0e9fda96f546dad900751adc0907/package.json#L48

Also, since 5.1.0 is not compatible with version 11.0.0 (as expected 😅), we cannot force a resolution to 11.0.0 in the user project.

Solution

We need to bump dotenv-expand to at least 11.0.0 to fix this issue.

In the meantime, we can declare variables this way, and it should work:

MY_VAR='\${MY_VAR}'

Links

• https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv-expand/issues/98
• https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/13399

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Not sure if I'm missing something here. So please let me know.