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npm i --save env.json
env.json is a package for managing environment variables for node micro services using a json file.
The package offers two functions:
process.env
contains the provided key, if so continue.process.env
does not contain the said key but a default option is set, then the default value will be set as the env varprocess.env
is found and no default
value is found, an error is thrownFirst create an env.json
file at the root of your project and ignore it from your git repo (this example demonstrates default values and non-default options):
{
"environment" : {
"key" : "APP_ENVIRONMENT",
"default" : "develop"
},
"url" : {
"key" : "APP_URL",
"default" : "https://github.com/jdcrecur/env.json"
},
"port" : {
"key" : "APP_PORT"
},
"password" : {
"key" : "BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD"
}
}
Second import the functions to set the environment variables
import {envSetup} from 'env.json'
envSetup()
Third use the data in your app
import {envGet} from 'env.json'
console.log( 'the app is listening on port: ' envGet('port') )
You might want to only set certain config data into the environment variables and not even in the env.json file.
Simply don't pass the default option.
"password" : {
"key" : "BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD"
}
}
By default the package will try to parse in utf8 format a file at the root of your project named env.json
You can override this by passing an option:
envSetup({ path: './config/env.json', encoding: 'utf16' })
(see the unit tests for an example in the repo)
Welcome, create an issue on github.
FAQs
env.json is a take on the traditional .env file pattern with an addition to be able to set the default from the same file opposed to additional logic.
We found that env.json 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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