simple if statement does not behave as expected

[John Palit]

If I set a variable to true in the config, a simple evaluation does not appear to work.
e.g. in options:

{
  DEBUG: true
}

in code:

let mode = 'production';
/// #if DEBUG
mode = 'debug';
/// #endif
console.log(mode);

In this scenario, mode is 'production', not 'debug' as expected. I had to use:

/// #if DEBUG === true

to get this to work as expected. (Triple equals is probably not necessary). The documentation suggests that DEBUG just needs to be a truthy value for this to work as expected, without an explicit evaluation.

[John Palit]

A further test indicates that === is in fact required.

[nino-porcino]

that's strange because the evaluating function is built to work with thruty values:

   const code = `return (${condition}) ? true : false;`;

(see line 199)

which results in:

return (DEBUG) ? true : false;

[John Palit]

Indeed it is strange. I did wonder if it had to do with caching, so deleted node_modules/.cache in between builds, but no change.

I'm using Typescript in Vue.js from vue-cli 3.

The behaviour I get is that if I just use #if VAR the code is never included, whatever the value of VAR. If I use #if VAR == true the code is always included, even if VAR is false or null. If I use #if VAR === true the code is included when true and not when false.

[John Palit]

Sorry, it was a problem with caching.