envk

This package 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:

pnpm 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 line comments starting with #

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

Nothing more, nothing less.

Usage

Load envs from .env:

node -r envk index.js

Load envs from .env.production file if present, 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

You can also use envk programmatically:

// autoload
import "envk";

// or

// fn to call
import envk from "envk/fn";
envk('<path>');

Development

Setup:

fnm install
npm install -g corepack
corepack enable
corepack install
pnpm install
pnpm test