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"Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list" getting some ENV var

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Hi! I’m trying to configure some vars into my ENVIRONMENT files but it’s trow a console error. Here is my configuration:

/config/dev.env.js:

var merge = require('webpack-merge')
var prodEnv = require('./prod.env')

module.exports = merge(prodEnv, {
  NODE_ENV: '"development"',
  API_BASE_URL: '"foo"'
})

/src/main.js

...
console.log(process.env.API_BASE_URL)

Console display this error:


Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
    at Object.<anonymous> (app.js:1093)
    at __webpack_require__ (app.js:660)
    at fn (app.js:86)
    at Object.<anonymous> (app.js:1779)
    at __webpack_require__ (app.js:660)
    at app.js:709
    at app.js:712

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

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tjunussovcommented, Oct 11, 2019

Same issue, here, but figured out,

You need to be very careful, with quotes VALUE:'"value"' needs to be in double quote

if you use variable you need to do like this VAR:'"'+myvar+'"'

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zhengkai2001commented, May 30, 2018

Just figured out - we need to stop the current process and do a rebuild in order to make the change work. For me, I just ctrl+C and npm run dev. Sorry for any disturbance