envoodoo
Environment variable loader
The 'env voodoo' under the hood is node streams! (FTW)
Description
This module loads environment files into process.env for you. By default it looks for a .env file in your project root but you can pass in a path to any other files you might wish to load environment variables from.
Usage
Basic usage examples
Loading a .env file in the root of the project
Loading a file somewhere else
var envoodoo = // or
Loading multiple files
var envoodoo = //loads default .env
.env files
envoodoo generally handles simple KEY=VALUE .env files.
However, note the following:
- KEY='VALUE' is acceptable
- KEY="VALUE" is acceptable
- export KEY=VALUE is also acceptable, envoodoo will strip the export from the start
- comments using a hash (#) - are acceptable and will be ignored by envoodoo
- empty lines - are acceptable and will be ignored by envoodoo
Example .env file
# My .env file
# user information
NAME=bob
AGE=31
# using export keyword
export ANIMAL=cat
# crazy key strings with weird characters
KEY1='12@3$%^asd'
KEY2="12@3$%^asd"
If this file were to be loaded with envoodoo, then:
process.env.NAME === 'bob'
process.env.AGE === '31'
process.env.ANIMAL === 'cat'
process.env.KEY1 === '12@3$%^asd'
process.env.KEY2 === '12@3$%^asd'