Get environment variables from the shell
Especially useful for Electron/NW.js apps as GUI apps on OS X doesn't inherit the environment variables defined in your dotfiles (.bashrc/.bash_profile/.zshrc/etc).
$ npm install --save shell-env
const shellEnv = require('shell-env');
console.log(shellEnv.sync());
//=> {TERM_PROGRAM: 'Apple_Terminal', SHELL: '/bin/zsh', ...}
Return a promise for the environment variables.
Returns the the environment variables.
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Get environment variables from the shell
The npm package shell-env receives a total of 2,083 weekly downloads. As such, shell-env popularity was classified as popular.
We found that shell-env demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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