This packages lets you autoload your environment variables from your .env
file, no code changes required.
Similar to dotenv
, but with zero-dependencies and less verbose.
Easy as:
yarn add envk
node -r envk index.js
Features:
- auto-detect of
.env.<NODE_ENV>
or.env
file - support for custom
.env
filename withENVK
environment variable - support for variable expansion
- support for single quotes
- support for double quotes
- support for empty lines
- support for multiline quoting with double quotes
"SECRET=hello\nworld"
- support for comments prefixing the line with
#
You can see what's happening inspecting index.js
.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Load envs from .env
:
node -r envk index.js
Load envs from .env.production
file, otherwise .env
:
NODE_ENV=production node -r envk index.js
Load envs from specific file:
ENVK=file.env node -r envk index.js
Log to console imported variables:
ENVK_DEBUG=1 node -r envk index.js