loose-envify - replace Node.js environment variables with plain strings

       Andres Suarez <zertosh@gmail.com>

       This  manual page was written by Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com> for the Debian project (and may be
       used by others), also based on material from the envify README (https://github.com/hughsk/envify) by Hugh
       Kennedy <hughskennedy@gmail.com> and the envify contributors.

v1.3.0                                            November 2022                                  LOOSE-ENVIFY(1)

       Performs  a  Javascript  source-to-source transformation (transpiling), that efficiently replaces Node.js
       process.env environment variables with plain strings. This makes the environment variable  checks  faster
       and easier to optimize out.

       Running this source code:

         if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "development") {
           console.log('development only')
         }

       through loose-envify:

         loose-envify index.js > bundle.js

       with NODE_ENV set to production results in:

         if ("production" === "development") {
           console.log('development only')
         }

       which, when run through a minifier, would be stripped out completely.

       However, if you run the same script through loose-envify with NODE_ENV set to development it gives:

         if ("development" === "development") {
           console.log('development only')
         }

       The if statement will evaluate to true, so the code won't be removed.

loose-envify - replace Node.js environment variables with plain strings

       loose-envify <javascript_source_file.js>