How to pass .env file variables to webpack config?

Question

I am new to webpack and worked out almost all build sections, but now the problem is that I want to pass the environment variables from a .env file to webpack config, so tha

Answer 1

webpack + dotenv

I did get inspiration from the accepted answer, but it doesn't work for me. Maybe the API of dotenv has changed.

The following works for me

import dotenv from 'dotenv'
import { DefinePlugin } from 'webpack'


...

plugins: [
    new DefinePlugin({
      'process.env': JSON.stringify(dotenv.config().parsed)
    })
]

...