🐛 BUG: SyntaxError, missing ) after argument list

[isaac-mcfadyen]

What version of Wrangler are you using?

0.0.0-bce731a

What operating system are you using?

MacOS

Describe the Bug

When running the command:
node -r dotenv/config node_modules/.bin/wrangler pages dev ./.svelte-kit/cloudflare (adapted from #190 (comment) for environment variables), Wrangler2 throws a SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list error (line 2).

The ./.svelte-kit/cloudflare directory contains a _worker.js and everything works fine if ommiting the node -r part.

[petebacondarwin]

What is in dotenv/config? Perhaps there is a syntax error in there?

[isaac-mcfadyen]

Sorry, forgot to provide the whole trace:

/Users/isaac/Projects/Node/example/node_modules/.bin/wrangler:2
basedir=$(dirname "$(echo "$0" | sed -e 's,\\,/,g')")
          ^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list

[petebacondarwin]

Ah right! So the file node_modules/.bin/wrangler is not a Node.js script. It is a bash script.
So by writing node -r dotenv/config node_modules/.bin/wrangler you are trying to run a bash script as a Node.js script, which obviously is not valid JS.

[petebacondarwin]

I'm not sure what the requirement for node -r dotenv/config is...?

[isaac-mcfadyen]

Oh! The comment that I went off of must have been using the original wrangler.

The only other option for passing in environment variables from a .env file that I could see was to use --binding $(cat .env) but that messes up quotations inside the .env file. Is there any options to directly use a .env file (I know that was planned at one point?)

[petebacondarwin]

I haven't seen any discussion of this other than #190, which you already mentioned.

[petebacondarwin]

As a workaround you could try using the following:

node -r dotenv/config node_modules/wrangler/bin/wrangler.js pages dev ./.svelte-kit/cloudflare

But that files does some crazy stuff to turn on --experimental-vm-modules which I believe is only required for miniflare.
So if that also doesn't work you could go one step further and try:

node -r dotenv/config node_modules/wrangler/wrangler-dist/cli.js pages dev ./.svelte-kit/cloudflare