Error: Invariant failed: SESSION_SECRET must be set about grunge-stack

[machour]

Just fyi, to use yarn, create the project using yarn create remix instead of npx .... The installer will use yarn for subsequent commands.

[mcansh]

when you opt out of npm install you should see the following which instructs you to run npx remix init

[mirsahib]

I fixed it by duplicating the .env.example file and renaming it to .env boom

[MiguelNiblock]

this doesn't happen when you say "Yes" to "run npm install?"

[machour]

This should be moved to https://github.com/remix-run/grunge-stack/issues

[iampueroo]

I'm also having this issue, but for the indie-stack.

I said "no" to "run npm install?" because I wanted to use yarn. I ran yarn setup and then yarn dev and this occurred.

Edit: For the record, I was able to get everything running by setting both the DATABASE_URL env variable (required in this stack for sqlite) and the SESSION_SECRET env variables (to random string). After that, I got remix running!

[machour]

@MiguelNiblock did you follow the instruction closely when opting out of installing dependencies?

[JonathanRys]

This happened to me after I ran:

npx arc env --add --env staging ARC_APP_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)
npx arc env --add --env staging SESSION_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)
npx arc env --add --env production ARC_APP_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)
npx arc env --add --env production SESSION_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)

To fix it I ran:

npx arc env --add --env testing ARC_APP_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)
npx arc env --add --env testing SESSION_SECRET $(openssl rand -hex 32)

[mcansh]

@JonathanRys you ran the first set of arc env commands and then npm run dev and it failed? then ran the second set and it worked?

mine is working fine without setting the "testing" ones

[technoY2K]

Edit: For the record, I was able to get everything running by setting both the DATABASE_URL env variable (required in this stack for sqlite) and the SESSION_SECRET env variables (to random string). After that, I got remix running!

Wanted to add to this. I did the exact same thing and it worked for me. Just as a note, if you look in the session.server.ts file on line 17, you will see that there is an invariant that checks whether a SESSION_SECRET is set or not. If you don't have an .env with that value set, which process.env is doing, the invariant trips and throws the error. This is actually a reason why I prefer these stacks to be just bare bones without any application code.