How to prevent Vite from interpolating env-var-like strings

[qiushiyan]

Hi I am working on a vite project where I need to use esbuild-wasm to build some user-provided code. I have some code like

import * as esbuild from "esbuild-wasm" 
// some initialization 
await esbuild.build({
  // other configurations
  define: {"process.env.NODE_ENV": "production"}
})

where the define key should set env vars for esbuild-wasm. However, when I run vite to serve locally the "process.env.NODE_ENV" string is being interpolated by vite to become ""development"" in the browser. Is there a way to prevent this behaviour?