react-native-dotenv: Importing variables throws an error in TypeScript.

I feel like the definitely typed package is probably a time waster and shouldn’t be recommended. I tried to think about how it could be fixed but you kinda just need to declare the module types yourself in the end

Ok. My workaround was to create a file named env.d.ts

declare module 'react-native-dotenv' {
  export const API_URL: string;
}

Yep. “@types/react-native-dotenv”: “^0.2.0”,

Ok, last try.

The README is recommending two ways to get typescript to work with this package. OPTION 2 is just to declare your env variables by hand. OPTION 1, presented as the easy way, require to install the definitely typed type package.

However, as explained by the thread starter, and multiple participants in this thread, this way doesn’t work.

Actually, you agree yourself that it doesn’t work since you wrote I feel like the definitely typed package is probably a time waster and shouldn't be recommended. I tried to think about how it could be fixed but you kinda just need to declare the module types yourself in the end

So you agree that OPTION1 is not working and shouldn’t be recommended

Hence, the README is wrong.

Thank you.

Sorry that’s my bad for not reading properly, but the way this works is that if something goes wrong, you can suggest that maybe the method doesn’t work at all or you can ask what you did wrong. This is a community where we have to keep our minds open to the possibility that we made a mistake somewhere and that it’s ok because we can learn together. I’m happy to take a look at your code to see why things are not working. Maybe it’s an edge case on the library? Maybe I can update the readme to account to your edge case. I can’t just remove suggestions because you’ve stated it didn’t work for you.

Yup the default import is purposely disabled because the values are replaced by babel in compile

Yep. “@types/react-native-dotenv”: “^0.2.0”,

Yes, this is what I’ve been using in my project.