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Environment variable breaking build

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

I have an environment variable that is a license key for a product in my project, it has some characters in there that seem to be breaking the build.

Can be reproduced in a vite.new.

Reproduction

https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-zqmwee?file=.env&terminal=dev

System Info

System:
    OS: macOS 12.1
    CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Memory: 152.78 MB / 32.00 GB
    Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.17.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/node
    npm: 6.14.13 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Brave Browser: 92.1.28.106
    Chrome: 98.0.4758.80
    Firefox: 91.0.1
    Safari: 15.2
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-legacy: ^1.6.4 => 1.7.0 
    @vitejs/plugin-vue: ^1.2.2 => 1.10.2 
    vite: ^2.8.0 => 2.8.0

Used Package Manager

npm

Logs

❯ vite --debug
  vite:config no config file found. +0ms
error when starting dev server:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split')
    at eval (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:70732:33)
    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at _interpolate (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:70718:18)
    at expand (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:70762:32)
    at loadEnv (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:71386:13)
    at resolveConfig (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:70869:9)
    at async createServer (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-c9c9d3e5.js:56354:20)
    at async CAC.eval (/home/projects/vitejs-vite-zqmwee/node_modules/vite/dist/node/cli.js:688:24)

Validations

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Make sure this is a Vite issue and not a framework-specific issue. For example, if it’s a Vue SFC related bug, it should likely be reported to https://github.com/vuejs/core instead.
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The provided reproduction is a minimal reproducible example of the bug.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

patak-devcommented, Feb 15, 2022

vite@2.8.3 was realesed to patch this regression

1reaction

sodateacommented, Feb 15, 2022

We need a more verbose error message here. The error stack doesn’t clearly tell us which file caused the error. It should at least show the file name; and the line number if possible.

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