Failed at "Cypress start:mocks" during CI workflow

[test-2287]

Hi, i followed the egghead course and the README file to deploy, but got throw new Error(prefix); at tiny-invariant

and i found npm run start:mocks have the same issue in my local dev env.

node version: v16.16.0
npm version: 8.11.0
platform: macOS bigSur

[kentcdodds]

Did you run the fly secrets set command before deploying?

[test-2287]

@kentcdodds yes~ , i ran fly secrets set SESSION_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32) --app blog-tutorial-c08c showed in the README and ran fly secrets set ADMIN_EMAIL=rachel@remix.run show in the course.

[kentcdodds]

Yeah, that's quite strange... I'm sorry, I don't know what it could be 😬

[test-2287]

Yeah, that's quite strange... I'm sorry, I don't know what it could be 😬

i found cypress ran start:mocks failed cause it can't get the env variables, since the default NODE_ENV of remix serve run is production, it will always throw Error in tiny-invariant.js

var isProduction = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production';
var prefix = 'Invariant failed';
function invariant(condition, message) {
    if (condition) {
        return;
    }
    if (isProduction) {
        throw new Error(prefix);
    }
    var provided = typeof message === 'function' ? message() : message;
    var value = provided ? prefix + ": " + provided : prefix;
    throw new Error(value);
}

module.exports = invariant;

i added the env as below in deploy.yml file and it works, i not sure if there is another better solution.

[kentcdodds]

Oh, did you update the .env.example? That's important because the github action will copy that file to .env before running the E2E tests.

[amite]

Oh, did you update the .env.example? That's important because the github action will copy that file to .env before running the E2E tests.

I am getting the same error. I tried updating the .env.example and it still crashes. I'll file a separate issue

[bbaki]

For anyone else trying to test the build locally, remix does not use .env file by default (link), also see this issue.

The solution is to use e.g. dotenv-cli like this: "start": "dotenv -e .env.production remix-serve build"