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Tries to be environment variables in JS runtime, global variables really, just not on window
or self
object.
Still be cautious, two packages using app-env
, and one is dependency of another and both call env.set('url', someValue)
.
It will change value of url
for both of them, causing unexpected behaviour.
$ npm i app-env
import env from 'app-env';
env.set(key: string, value: any, [modifiable: boolean])
Sets a value for given key, can be prevented from further modification by setting modifiable to false
, in which case another
attempt will throw TypeError
.
env.get(key: string)
Gets value of given key, same as env.KEY_NAME_HERE
FAQs
Global environment variables for JS runtime
The npm package app-env receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, app-env popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that app-env demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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