rbxts-transform-env

Transformer for Roblox TypeScript compiler that allows getting values of process.env as string literals

Installation

npm i rbxts-transform-env, then in your tsconfig.json:

    "compilerOptions": {
        ...
        "plugins": [
            {
                "transform": "rbxts-transform-env"
            }
        ],
    }

Usage

$NODE_ENV

This will change to whatever the value of NODE_ENV is in your environment. If no value is set, this is defined in the configuration options above under defaultEnvironment, or "production" if no such value is present.

$env

This contains three functions of which can be used to obtain environment variables

$env.string( variable [, defaultValue] )

This will attempt to grab the given variable from the environment, otherwise will provide the default value. (undefined if no default value is given)

$env.boolean( variable )

This can be used to get a boolean environment variable, or check if an environment variable exists. If the value is not (case-insensitive) false, but is set it will be considered true. This can be used to also check if environment variables exist.

$env.number( variable [, defaultValue] )

This will attempt to grab the given variable from the environment and parse it as a number, otherwise will provide the default value. (undefined if no default value is given)

Behaviours

If there is an if statement, an attempt will be made to short-circuit the if statement. e.g.

if ($NODE_ENV === "production") {
    // Code here
}

Any code in this if statement will not render (unless an else is specified) if the environment is not production.

This also applies to $env.boolean. Currently $env.string and $env.number do not shortcut, but this may change in future.

Changes from 1.0 to 2.0

• New transformation process (should be faster)
• Removed $ifEnv. This should be doable via an if statement now.
• $env has now been split up into $env.string, $env.number and $env.boolean. $env is no longer callable.
  • The reason for this was the old behaviour of relying on the template argument for typing was a hidden "gotcha" that had issues. This is much more explicit.

Versions

Below is a matrix of versions to roblox-ts versions. This should be approximately correct for the older versions.