@dbx-tools/cli-appkit-env

CLI and formatting helpers for exporting AppKit auto-configuration results.

Use the dbx-tools-appkit-env bin when a shell or process manager needs the Lakebase / AppKit environment that @dbx-tools/appkit would resolve before createApp().

Key features:

• Runs the same AppKit auto-configuration path used by @dbx-tools/appkit.
• Emits only variables that changed during auto-configuration.
• Supports shell export, JSON, and Windows set output formats.
• Provides importable env snapshot/diff/format helpers for tests and wrapper CLIs.
• Keeps local shell setup aligned with deployed AppKit startup behavior.

Load Env Into A Shell

eval "$(dbx-tools-appkit-env --quiet)"

The command snapshots process.env, runs AppKit auto-config, diffs the result, and prints only new or changed variables. On POSIX shells the default output is export KEY=value.

The package installs two equivalent commands: dbx-tools-appkit-env and the shorter dbxt-appkit-env. Neither matches the package name, so a one-off run has to name the command explicitly:

npx --package @dbx-tools/cli-appkit-env dbx-tools-appkit-env --quiet

This is useful when another process must start after Lakebase discovery has filled PGHOST, PGDATABASE, PGUSER, or related AppKit variables.

Inspect JSON Or Windows Output

dbx-tools-appkit-env --format json
dbx-tools-appkit-env --format windows

Use JSON for process managers and tests. Use Windows format for cmd.exe set KEY=value lines.

Format Env Diffs Programmatically

import { envExport } from "@dbx-tools/cli-appkit-env";

const before = envExport.snapshotEnv();
process.env.PGHOST = "ep-foo.database.azuredatabricks.net";
const diff = envExport.diffEnv(before);

console.log(envExport.formatEnvExport(diff, "export"));

These helpers are useful in tests for auto-config behavior or in custom CLIs that want the same output formats without invoking the bin.

Modules

• envExport - env snapshots, env diffs, default format detection, formatEnvExport(), and parseEnvExportFormat().

Auto-config itself lives in @dbx-tools/appkit.