diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/plugins/validateEnv.ts b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/plugins/validateEnv.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6c13d96c48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/plugins/validateEnv.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { type Plugin, loadEnv } from "vite";
+
+import { ensureEnvSchema } from 'wasp/env'
+import { clientEnvSchema } from 'wasp/client/env/schema'
+
+export function validateEnv(): Plugin {
+  return {
+    name: 'wasp-validate-env',
+    config: (config) => {
+      const env = loadEnv(config.mode, process.cwd(), config.envPrefix)
+      ensureEnvSchema(env, clientEnvSchema)
+    },
+  };
+}
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/tsconfig.node.json b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/tsconfig.node.json
index d90bb30d80..3b1dd9cea2 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/tsconfig.node.json
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/tsconfig.node.json
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
     "moduleResolution": "bundler",
     "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
   },
-  "include": ["vite.config.ts", "./src/ext-src/vite.config.ts"]
+  "include": ["vite.config.ts", "./src/ext-src/vite.config.ts", "./plugins/"]
 }
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/vite.config.ts b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/vite.config.ts
index db6b6453db..3434be3077 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/vite.config.ts
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/react-app/vite.config.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 {{={= =}=}}
 /// <reference types="vitest" />
-import { mergeConfig, type Plugin, loadEnv } from "vite";
+import { mergeConfig } from "vite";
 import react from "@vitejs/plugin-react";
 import { defaultExclude } from "vitest/config"
 
-import { ensureEnvSchema } from 'wasp/dev'
-import { clientEnvSchema } from 'wasp/client/env/schema'
+import { validateEnv } from "./plugins/validateEnv.js";
 
 {=# customViteConfig.isDefined =}
 // Ignoring the TS error because we are importing a file outside of TS root dir.
@@ -20,8 +19,8 @@ const _waspUserProvidedConfig = {};
 const defaultViteConfig = {
   base: "{= baseDir =}",
   plugins: [
-    react(),
     validateEnv(),
+    react(),
   ],
   optimizeDeps: {
     exclude: ['wasp']
@@ -59,13 +58,3 @@ export default mergeConfig(
   defaultViteConfig,
   _waspUserProvidedConfig
 );
-
-function validateEnv(): Plugin {
-  return {
-    name: 'wasp-validate-env',
-    config: (config) => {
-      const env = loadEnv(config.mode, process.cwd(), config.envPrefix)
-      ensureEnvSchema(env, clientEnvSchema)
-    },
-  };
-}
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/client/env/schema.ts b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/client/env/schema.ts
index 71ecc87f0f..29ab2d679d 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/client/env/schema.ts
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/client/env/schema.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {{={= =}=}}
 import * as z from 'zod'
 
-// PRIVATE API (SDK, Vite config)
+// PRIVATE API (sdk, Vite config)
 export const clientEnvSchema = z.object({
   REACT_APP_API_URL: z
     .string()
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/dev/index.ts b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/dev/index.ts
index bccbfb2adb..e9bd93f7da 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/dev/index.ts
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/dev/index.ts
@@ -15,5 +15,3 @@ import { join as joinPaths } from 'path'
 export function resolveProjectPath(path: string): string {
   return joinPaths('../../../', path)
 }
-
-export { ensureEnvSchema } from '../env/index.js'
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/env/index.ts b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/env/index.ts
index 9d81bd80bf..92402b11dd 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/env/index.ts
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/env/index.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import * as z from 'zod'
 
 const redColor = '\x1b[31m'
 
+// PRIVATE API (SDK, Vite config)
 export function ensureEnvSchema<Schema extends z.ZodTypeAny>(
   data: unknown,
   schema: Schema
diff --git a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/package.json b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/package.json
index 9155ef49fa..84e2be6777 100644
--- a/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/package.json
+++ b/waspc/data/Generator/templates/sdk/wasp/package.json
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
       "./client/test": "./dist/client/test/index.js",
       "./client": "./dist/client/index.js",
       "./client/env/schema": "./dist/client/env/schema.js",
+      "./env": "./dist/env/index.js",
       "./dev": "./dist/dev/index.js",
 
       {=! todo(filip): Fixes below are for type errors in 0.13.1, remove ASAP =}
diff --git a/waspc/src/Wasp/Generator/WebAppGenerator.hs b/waspc/src/Wasp/Generator/WebAppGenerator.hs
index 2f896c4f4c..95410c1385 100644
--- a/waspc/src/Wasp/Generator/WebAppGenerator.hs
+++ b/waspc/src/Wasp/Generator/WebAppGenerator.hs
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ genWebApp spec = do
       genNpmrc,
       genGitignore,
       genIndexHtml spec,
+      -- Vite plugins
+      genFileCopy [relfile|plugins/validateEnv.ts|],
       genViteConfig spec
     ]
     <++> genSrcDir spec