Environment variables with SvelteKit

[utterances-bot]

Environment variables with SvelteKit - Tim Deschryver

A simple workaround to use environment variables in SvelteKit

https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/environment-variables-with-sveltekit

[vhscom]

This is great, Tim. Recent versions of SvelteKit have reworked the environment system. $env/static/public and friends are a thing now and worth calling out in a reboot of this post.

[vhscom]

Here's a reboot by Scott Spence https://scottspence.com/posts/sveltekit-environment-variables-with-the-sveltekit-env-module

[timdeschryver]

Oh sweet - thanks for the heads up!
I did not know about that one @vhscom.

Since it got its place on the official docs, I'll just probably point to that one at the start of the article.
If you want, feel free to create a PR with those changes.

[ryvdx]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't feel the svelte solution made the problem obsolete. I'm seeing many others have the same problem as I am having: you create a .env file and add environment variables to it. Regardless if you use static or dynamic environment variables, it seems they are still incorporated into the build process. Which is unfortunate since if you containerize your SvelteKit app, the natural behavior is to pass in the environment variables by the infrastructure. But that does not work. Passing in environment variables in docker or kubernetes are ignored and the values in the .env trump anything. Am I missing something? Seems we still need dotenv for containerized SvelteKit apps.