env-url

env-url

A simple node program for executing commands using environment variables supplied by a url

Install

npm install env-url or npm install -g env-url

Usage

Package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "env-url http://localhost:8000/config/development node ./index.js"
  }
}

Environment File Format

env-url expects to pull JSON down from a URL using a POST. It will turn json into environment variables, including nested json e.g.:

{
  "test": "value",
  "nestedTest": {
    "test": 1
  }
}

becomes:

TEST=value
NESTED_TEST_TEST=1

Why

Because it can be useful to get configuration from an HTTP endpoint