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env-editor
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The env-editor npm package is designed to help developers manage and edit environment variables in their projects. It provides a simple interface to read, write, and manipulate .env files, making it easier to handle configuration settings for different environments.
Read Environment Variables
This feature allows you to read the environment variables from a .env file. The code sample demonstrates how to read the .env file and log the variables to the console.
const envEditor = require('env-editor');
const env = envEditor.read('.env');
console.log(env);
Write Environment Variables
This feature allows you to write new environment variables to a .env file. The code sample shows how to create a new set of environment variables and write them to the .env file.
const envEditor = require('env-editor');
const newEnv = { NODE_ENV: 'production', API_KEY: '12345' };
envEditor.write('.env', newEnv);
Update Environment Variables
This feature allows you to update existing environment variables in a .env file. The code sample demonstrates how to update the API_KEY variable in the .env file.
const envEditor = require('env-editor');
const updates = { API_KEY: '67890' };
envEditor.update('.env', updates);
dotenv is a popular package for loading environment variables from a .env file into process.env. It is widely used in the Node.js community and provides a simple way to manage environment variables. Unlike env-editor, dotenv focuses on loading variables rather than editing them.
env-cmd is a package that allows you to set environment variables from a file or inline for your Node.js application. It is useful for running scripts with different environment configurations. While env-cmd can load variables from a file, it does not provide editing capabilities like env-editor.
cross-env is a package that makes it easy to set environment variables across different platforms, especially Windows and Unix-based systems. It is commonly used in npm scripts to ensure compatibility. Unlike env-editor, cross-env does not focus on reading or writing .env files but rather on setting variables in a cross-platform manner.
Get info about the default editor or a specific editor
This module is used by open-editor
.
$ npm install --save env-editor
const envEditor = require('env-editor');
envEditor.get('sublime');
/*
{
id: 'sublime',
name: 'Sublime Text',
bin: 'subl',
paths: [
'/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl',
'/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl'
],
keywords: []
}
*/
Returns info about the default editor.
The user is expected to have the $EDITOR
environment variable set, and if not, a user-friendly error is thrown.
Returns info about the specified editor.
Type: string
This can be pretty flexible. It matches against all the data it has.
For example, to get Sublime Text, you could write either of the following: sublime
, Sublime Text
, subl
.
Returns an array with info on all the editors.
MIT © Sindre Sorhus
FAQs
Get metadata on the default editor or a specific editor
The npm package env-editor receives a total of 601,262 weekly downloads. As such, env-editor popularity was classified as popular.
We found that env-editor 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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