feat: allow CLI dev to use injected environment variables (#532)

* feat: allow CLI dev to use injected environment variables

* Remove console.log

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Co-authored-by: Eric Allam <eallam@icloud.com>

.changeset/tidy-toys-turn.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@trigger.dev/cli": patch
+---
+
+allow CLI dev to use injected environment variable

packages/cli/src/commands/dev.ts

@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ export async function devCommand(path: string, anyOptions: any) {
     telemetryClient.dev.failed("missing_api_key", resolvedOptions);
     return;
   }
-  const { apiUrl, envFile, apiKey } = apiDetails;
-  logger.success(`✔️ [trigger.dev] Found API Key in ${envFile} file`);
+  const { apiUrl, apiKey, apiKeySource } = apiDetails;
+  logger.success(`✔️ [trigger.dev] Found API Key in ${apiKeySource}`);
 
   //verify that the endpoint can be reached
   const verifiedEndpoint = await verifyEndpoint(resolvedOptions, endpointId, apiKey, framework);
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export async function devCommand(path: string, anyOptions: any) {
     const refreshedEndpointId = await getEndpointIdFromPackageJson(resolvedPath, resolvedOptions);
 
     // Read from env file to get the TRIGGER_API_KEY and TRIGGER_API_URL
-    const apiDetails = await getTriggerApiDetails(resolvedPath, envFile);
+    const apiDetails = await getTriggerApiDetails(resolvedPath, resolvedOptions.envFile);
 
     if (!apiDetails) {
       connectingSpinner.fail(`[trigger.dev] Failed to connect: Missing API Key`);

packages/cli/src/utils/getTriggerApiDetails.ts

@@ -1,66 +1,23 @@
-import pathModule from "path";
-import { pathExists, readFile } from "./fileSystem";
 import { logger } from "./logger";
-import dotenv from "dotenv";
 import { CLOUD_API_URL } from "../consts";
 import { checkApiKeyIsDevServer } from "./getApiKeyType";
-
-export async function readEnvFilesWithBackups(
-  path: string,
-  envFile: string,
-  backups: string[]
-): Promise<{ content: string; fileName: string } | undefined> {
-  const envFilePath = pathModule.join(path, envFile);
-  const envFileExists = await pathExists(envFilePath);
-
-  if (envFileExists) {
-    const content = await readFile(envFilePath);
-
-    return { content, fileName: envFile };
-  }
-
-  for (const backup of backups) {
-    const backupPath = pathModule.join(path, backup);
-    const backupExists = await pathExists(backupPath);
-
-    if (backupExists) {
-      const content = await readFile(backupPath);
-
-      return { content, fileName: backup };
-    }
-  }
-
-  return;
-}
+import { readEnvVariables } from "./readEnvVariables";
 
 export async function getTriggerApiDetails(path: string, envFile: string) {
-  const resolvedEnvFile = await readEnvFilesWithBackups(path, envFile, [
-    ".env",
-    ".env.local",
-    ".env.development.local",
-  ]);
+  const envVarsToRead = ["TRIGGER_API_KEY", "TRIGGER_API_URL"];
+  const resolvedEnvVars = await readEnvVariables(path, envFile, envVarsToRead);
 
-  if (!resolvedEnvFile) {
-    logger.error(`You must add TRIGGER_API_KEY to your ${envFile} file.`);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const parsedEnvFile = dotenv.parse(resolvedEnvFile.content);
-
-  if (!parsedEnvFile) {
-    logger.error(`You must add TRIGGER_API_KEY to your ${envFile} file.`);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const apiKey = parsedEnvFile.TRIGGER_API_KEY;
-  const apiUrl = parsedEnvFile.TRIGGER_API_URL;
+  const apiKey = resolvedEnvVars.TRIGGER_API_KEY;
+  const apiUrl = resolvedEnvVars.TRIGGER_API_URL;
 
   if (!apiKey) {
-    logger.error(`You must add TRIGGER_API_KEY to your ${envFile} file.`);
+    logger.error(
+      `You must add TRIGGER_API_KEY to your ${envFile} file or set as runtime environment variable.`
+    );
     return;
   }
 
-  const result = checkApiKeyIsDevServer(apiKey);
+  const result = checkApiKeyIsDevServer(apiKey.value);
 
   if (!result.success) {
     if (result.type) {
@@ -75,5 +32,10 @@ export async function getTriggerApiDetails(path: string, envFile: string) {
     return;
   }
 
-  return { apiKey, apiUrl: apiUrl ?? CLOUD_API_URL, envFile: resolvedEnvFile.fileName };
+  return {
+    apiKey: apiKey.value,
+    apiUrl: apiUrl?.value ?? CLOUD_API_URL,
+    apiKeySource:
+      apiKey.source.type === "runtime" ? "process runtime" : `${apiKey.source.name} file`,
+  };
 }

packages/cli/src/utils/readEnvVariables.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+import pathModule from "path";
+import { pathExists, readFile } from "./fileSystem";
+import dotenv from "dotenv";
+
+const ENV_FILES_FALLBACK = [".env", ".env.local", ".env.development.local"];
+
+export type EnvVarSourceRuntime = {
+  type: "runtime";
+};
+
+export type EnvVarSourceFile = {
+  type: "file";
+  name: string;
+};
+
+export type EnvVarSource = EnvVarSourceRuntime | EnvVarSourceFile;
+
+export type EnvironmentVariable = {
+  value: string;
+  source: EnvVarSource;
+};
+
+export type EnvironmentVariables = {
+  [name: string]: EnvironmentVariable | undefined;
+};
+
+// Reads `varsToRead` from `process.env` and `envFile` (with fallbacks).
+// `process.env` takes precedence over the `envFile`.
+export async function readEnvVariables(
+  path: string,
+  envFile: string,
+  varsToRead: string[]
+): Promise<EnvironmentVariables> {
+  const resolvedEnvFile = await readEnvFilesWithBackups(path, envFile);
+  const parsedEnvFile = resolvedEnvFile
+    ? { output: dotenv.parse(resolvedEnvFile.content), filename: resolvedEnvFile.fileName }
+    : {};
+
+  return Object.fromEntries(
+    varsToRead.map((envVar) => [
+      envVar,
+      readFromRuntime(envVar) ?? readFromFile(envVar, parsedEnvFile),
+    ])
+  );
+}
+
+async function readEnvFilesWithBackups(
+  path: string,
+  envFile: string
+): Promise<{ content: string; fileName: string } | undefined> {
+  const envFilePath = pathModule.join(path, envFile);
+  const envFileExists = await pathExists(envFilePath);
+
+  if (envFileExists) {
+    const content = await readFile(envFilePath);
+
+    return { content, fileName: envFile };
+  }
+
+  for (const fallBack of ENV_FILES_FALLBACK) {
+    const fallbackPath = pathModule.join(path, fallBack);
+    const fallbackExists = await pathExists(fallbackPath);
+
+    if (fallbackExists) {
+      const content = await readFile(fallbackPath);
+
+      return { content, fileName: fallBack };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return;
+}
+
+function readFromRuntime(envVar: string): EnvironmentVariable | undefined {
+  const val = process.env[envVar];
+  if (!val) {
+    return;
+  }
+  return {
+    value: val,
+    source: {
+      type: "runtime",
+    } as EnvVarSourceRuntime,
+  };
+}
+
+function readFromFile(
+  envVar: string,
+  parsedEnvFile: { output?: dotenv.DotenvParseOutput; filename?: string }
+): EnvironmentVariable | undefined {
+  const val = parsedEnvFile.output ? parsedEnvFile.output[envVar] : undefined;
+  if (!val) {
+    return;
+  }
+  return {
+    value: val,
+    source: {
+      type: "file",
+      name: parsedEnvFile.filename,
+    } as EnvVarSourceFile,
+  };
+}