Why can't Vite fix this? "Internal server error: Invalid glob import syntax: Could only use literals"

[babakfp]

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[babakfp]

@bluwy

Hi 👋

#5478 (comment)

Glob imports can't use variables as they are not statically analyzable.

I don't know what this means, so, can't we just make it work? Can't we just not analyze it? 🤔😅

[bluwy]

Vite can't just not analyze it. import.meta.glob would be preserved in the client/server and it'll error in runtime because it doesn't exist. You'd need a different code approach to the problem you're trying to tackle.

[babakfp]

I look a look into the Vite source code, and I found out that it doesn't evaluate the code, it just converts it to AST and tries to find the path that way 🤔.
For my use case, I imported all markdown files and filtered them based on a function param based on the path...
Thanks

[frederikheld]

@bluwy So there's no way to make such paths configurable, not even thorugh VITE env variables? I have to hard-code all paths that I want to import with import.meta.glob? That's a pity...

[BrownSterring]

This is a real world killer for a generic application. I cannot hardcode all the paths there... there needs to be a way around this.