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Autoload your environment variables from your `.env` file, no code changes required. Similar to `dotenv`, but with zero-dependencies and less verbose.

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envk

This packages lets you autoload your environment variables from your .env file, no code changes required. Similar to dotenv, but with zero-dependencies and less verbose.

Easy as:

yarn add envk
node -r envk index.js

Features:

  • auto-detect of .env.<NODE_ENV> or .env file
  • support for custom .env filename with ENVK environment variable
  • support for variable expansion
  • support for single quotes
  • support for double quotes
  • support for empty lines
  • support for multiline quoting with double quotes "SECRET=hello\nworld"
  • support for comments prefixing the line with #

You can see what's happening inspecting index.js.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Usage

Load envs from .env:

node -r envk index.js

Load envs from .env.production file, otherwise .env:

NODE_ENV=production node -r envk index.js

Load envs from specific file:

ENVK=file.env node -r envk index.js

Log to console imported variables:

ENVK_DEBUG=1 node -r envk index.js

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Package last updated on 28 Aug 2025

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