DotEnvify

Turn messy key-value text into a clean .env file — from the command line.

You paste this:

API_KEY
a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0
DATABASE_URL
postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/db

You get this:

API_KEY=a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0
DATABASE_URL="postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/db"

Keys are sorted, values that need quotes get quoted, and your existing .env is backed up before anything is written.

Install

npm install -g @webbies.dev/dotenvify
# or run it once, without installing:
npx @webbies.dev/dotenvify vars.txt -o .env

Usage

dotenvify <source> [options]

<source> is the file you want to convert.

| Option | Short | What it does | |---------------------|-------|------------------------------------------------------| | --output <file> | -o | Where to write (default: .env) | | --export | -e | Add an export prefix to every line | | --overwrite | -f | Overwrite without making a backup | | --preserve <vars> | -k | Keep current values for these keys (comma-separated) | | --skip-sort | | Keep the original order instead of sorting | | --skip-lower | | Drop keys that contain lowercase letters | | --url-only | | Keep only values that are URLs |

Input it understands

You can mix any of these in one file — DotEnvify figures out each line. Lines starting with # are left alone.

API_KEY=a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0          # already KEY=VALUE
SECRET="my secret value"              # quoted
export NODE_ENV=production            # export prefix (removed)
REDIS_HOST localhost                  # separated by a space
DATABASE_URL                          # key on one line,
postgres://user:pass@localhost/db     #   value on the next

JetBrains plugin

Prefer working in your IDE? The same conversion is available inside IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, GoLand, Rider, and other JetBrains IDEs, plus Azure DevOps variable-group import and .env diagnostics. Install it from the Marketplace.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.