Inline the app's .env in the web dev server by skyturkish · Pull Request #8 · geastack/simulator

skyturkish · 2026-09-27T21:43:47Z

The web dev server now inlines the process.env.<KEY> values an app reads, as the embedded build already does. Weather reads GEA_WIFI_SSID at module scope, so gea dev weather served a blank page. That real-DOM page is the reference the native targets are compared against, so it has to run the same source as the device build.

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- Configured environment values are now available while developing the web app, helping its behavior reflect the active setup. If those values cannot be loaded or evaluated, development continues with an empty set instead. This provides a consistent fallback without preventing the development server from starting.

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The web development script loads app environment definitions from the core package and passes them to Vite. If loading or evaluation fails, the script warns and uses an empty object.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Load and configure environment definitions `targets/web/dev-web.mjs`	The script loads the app’s environment definitions and uses an empty object if loading fails. It passes the resulting definitions to Vite’s `define` option.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: puskuruk

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 392f7

App .env values, including secrets, can be exposed to clients of the dev server. Filter the definitions before merging unless that exposure is explicitly accepted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to 392f7

The development server can expose app environment values that the app never explicitly references. Its existing network-accessible configuration increases the potential audience for that disclosure. The production build already restricts this behavior, but the new development configuration does not apply the same restriction.

Retained concerns

High · security · observed: The new development define configuration bypasses the existing member-only environment disclosure boundary. Passing import.meta.env.* definitions allows a bare import.meta.env read to disclose unused app environment values, rather than only values explicitly consumed by source expressions.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The independently exposed scope is the selected app's environment values returned by the loader, including unused values carried into the browser environment object. A consumer needs access to an affected transformed module or browser execution, not necessarily permission to read the original environment file. Network reachability depends on the host environment; any further service or asset access depends on the credentials actually present.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

observed — The retained sensitive-data-exposure finding is reportable by static trace. App environment definitions reach the new unfiltered define sink, and import.meta.env.* definitions can populate a bare browser environment object. The full comparison establishes that this disclosure channel is introduced by the PR, rather than merely reporting an unchanged source condition.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The decisive boundary is local app configuration to browser-delivered JavaScript. The member-only plugin and production process.env.* filter are meaningful counterevidence against indiscriminate exposure in those paths, but neither filters the new development define map. The filesystem allowlist does not constrain values already embedded in transformed JavaScript.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — Environment reload has separate plugin and define state. The plugin refreshes definitions and removes watcher listeners on server close, but those controls do not demonstrate removal of values from the new define snapshot. Treating restart as sufficient secret revocation would therefore require additional runtime evidence.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Apply the production process.env.* filter to the development define map and retain member-specific handling for import.meta.env.KEY. Preserve an explicit invariant that unused app values cannot enter bare import.meta.env, including after restart or secret removal.

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Review comments at @targets/web/dev-web.mjs:
- Line 230: Refresh `define` values during Vite config resolution instead of
reusing the one-time `envDefines` value. Add a Vite `config` hook that loads the
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skyturkish · 2026-09-29T17:04:08Z

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The embedded build inlines every `process.env.<KEY>` an app reads through dotEnvDefines (build-gea-vite-geatsc.mjs); this dev server did not, so the same source threw ReferenceError in the browser. Weather reads GEA_WIFI_SSID at module scope, so the whole app failed to mount and `gea dev weather` served a blank page. That page is the real-DOM, real-CSS rendering the native targets are compared against, so it has to run the source the device build runs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Line 229: Restrict the `define` configuration in the web dev setup to
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Keep per-member `import.meta.env` substitution in `createDotEnvPlugin`.

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-05T22:29:09Z

    compatTransform,
    withoutTsconfigWrite(geaPlugin()),
  ],
+  define: envDefines,


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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Restrict define to process.env.* keys.

When app code reads bare import.meta.env, Vite 8.0.0 adds configured import.meta.env.* definitions to the client-side object. This can expose unrelated .env values, including secrets, to clients that can access the dev server. (github.com)

Filter envDefines to process.env.*, as targets/web/build-dom-web.mjs does. Keep per-member import.meta.env substitution in createDotEnvPlugin.

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- define: envDefines, + define: Object.fromEntries( + Object.entries(envDefines).filter(([key]) => key.startsWith('process.env.')), + ),

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define: envDefines,

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skyturkish · 2026-10-05T23:12:54Z

Closing as superseded. This was written on 2026-09-22 against a dev server that did not inline .env; main gained that on 2026-09-24 in 77ad5b2 (createDotEnvPlugin, an AST pass that replaces process.env.KEY / import.meta.env.KEY in dev and refreshes on .env changes).

Verified against current main without this PR: dev-web.mjs serves weather's stores/WeatherStore.ts with const WIFI_SSID = "";, the page loads, and /@vite/env carries no GEA_WIFI_* keys.

With this PR applied, the extra define: folds every .env key into Vite's import.meta.env object, which is exactly what dom-web-dotenv-defines.browser.test.mjs guards against (GEA_TEST_UNREFERENCED must not leak) — hence the red browser check. Nothing is left for this branch to do.

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