inject to process.env like vue-cli or create-react-app and also define client process.env.XXX for you.

• vite expose env to import.meta.env.PREFIX_XXX, but not loaded to process.env like vue-cli or create-react-app.
• this plugin support setting prefix like VUE_APP_ or REACT_APP_ and loaded to process.env(support by vite@2.5.1).
• built-in with vue-cli-plugin-vite just for compatibility.

yarn add vite-plugin-env-compatible

// vite.config.ts
import env from 'vite-plugin-env-compatible'
// @see https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    // ...other plugins
    env(/* options */)
  ],
})

• @see

• dotenv & dotenv-expand
• vite

• vue-cli-plugin-vite