now-env

now-env

Module to load environment variables defined in a now.json file or the now key in the package.json and set them in process.env.

Usage

Download it from npm.

yarn add now-env
npm i now-env

Then require it.

require('now-env').config()

That's all, you can now check in process.env for you environment variables!

If your application is running inside ▲ZEIT Now cloud then this module is not going to do anything and let ▲ZEIT Now set your environment variables.

Using secrets

Most probably you will want to use secret keys in your now.json file. This module allow you to use them too without worries in development.

Just create a now-secrets.json file with you development secrets, that file must be ignored with Git, then just use now-env as usual and it will auto-detect the file and use it to replace your secrets values.

If the file doesn't exists or if your secret key is not defined then it's going to use the secret name as value, that means if DB_PASS is @db_pass and you don't define it inside now-secrets.json then the value will be @db_pass.

Migrate from dotenv

If you're already using the dotenv module you can switch to now-env easily.

1. Create a now.json file with the env key with every environment variable.
2. Install now-env
3. Change require('dotenv').config() with require('now-env').config().
4. That's all!