Running standalone scripts and long-running applications with SvelteKit codebase

Question

I have a SvelteKit project and'd like to run some maintenance scripts from the command line. I know how to run scripts with node. The maintenance scripts would refer modules in SvelteKit's $lib folder which then import other modules and $env.

How can I run a script in a way that the SvelteKit framework specific functionality imports like $lib and $env are available inside the script code?

E.g.

node src/scripts/myscript.js   # How can import $lib here

• How SvelteKit sets up its framework specific modules and imports?
• What of these can be used in command line applications? Naturally some like navigator cannot be made available.

Answer 1

As kind people in SvelteKit discord pointed out there is vite-node package that does exactly this:

npx vite-node src/scripts/my-sveltekit-script.js

• $lib works
• Public $env works
• For private environment variables you still need to access process.env directly