dotenv-expand
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Package description
The dotenv-expand npm package is an extension for dotenv. It allows you to have more complex .env files by enabling variable expansion within your environment variables. This means you can reference other environment variables within your .env file, which dotenv by itself does not support.
Variable Expansion
This feature allows you to reference other variables in your .env file. For example, if you have a BASE_URL variable, you can use it to construct the API_URL variable.
require('dotenv').config();
require('dotenv-expand')(process.env);
// .env file
// BASE_URL=https://myapi.com
// API_URL=${BASE_URL}/v1Nested Variable Expansion
This feature allows for nested variable expansion where you can use multiple environment variables to construct a new one.
require('dotenv').config();
require('dotenv-expand')(process.env);
// .env file
// URL=https://myapi.com
// VERSION=v1
// API_URL=${URL}/${VERSION}env-cmd is a simple node program for executing commands using an environment from an env file. It is similar to dotenv-expand in that it helps manage environment variables, but it does not support variable expansion.
cross-env allows you to run scripts that set and use environment variables across platforms. It is similar to dotenv-expand in the sense that it helps with environment variables, but it does not support .env file variable expansion.
envfile is a package to parse and stringify the envfile format. It is similar to dotenv-expand in that it works with .env files, but it does not support variable expansion within the .env file itself.
Changelog
5.1.0 and prior
Please see commit history.
Readme
Dotenv-expand adds variable expansion on top of dotenv. If you find yourself needing to expand environment variables already existing on your machine, then dotenv-expand is your tool.
npm install dotenv --save
npm install dotenv-expand --save
As early as possible in your application, require dotenv and dotenv-expand, and wrap dotenv-expand around dotenv.
var dotenv = require('dotenv')
var dotenvExpand = require('dotenv-expand')
var myEnv = dotenv.config()
dotenvExpand(myEnv)
See test/.env for examples of variable expansion in your .env
file.
FAQs
Expand environment variables using dotenv
We found that dotenv-expand demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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