Config vars babel plugin

Getting started

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-replace-config-vars

Usage

In .babelrc add your configuration options:

// ...
"plugins": [
  "replace-config-vars"
],
"extra": {
    "config": [
    "./config/$ENV.js",
    "./config/$ENV.json",
    {
      "development": {
        "URL": "http://localhost:3000"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Configuration

The "config" keyword is expected to include an array of configuration. Each entry in the array can be either a string or an object.

If the entry is a string, it is expected to be a path to a file. The file can either be a JSON file or a javascript file. Replace config vars respects either and simply does a require. If you use a .js file, make sure you use module.exports on the file to actually export the variables. See test/config/test.js for an example.

If the string contains a $ENV, it will be replaced with the current environment set by NODE_ENV. That is, if your process is started like so:

NODE_ENV=test npm run

The above configuration would change the first two entries into test resulting in the files at ./config/test.js and ./config/test.json to be loaded.

If the entry is an object and it contains a key of the current environment (see above for example), then it will simply use the hardcoded values.

Reference options in source

In the source, we can simply reference the variables in our config by prepending them with the normal node process.env.. For instance, to reference the URL option in the config above, assuming our process is running with NODE_ENV=development, then we can use the variable process.env.URL in our source and babel will replace it when it processes it.

var url = process.env.URL;
// ...