dotenv-extra

"Gracefully handle .env files."

Usage

API

npm install dotenv-extra

import DotEnv from 'dotenv-extra';

// Load a specific .env file
const dotEnv = new DotEnv('path-to-file');

// Update or insert an entry
dotEnv
  .upsert('key', 'value')
  .upsert('foo', 'bar')
  .upsert('baz', 'qux');

// Get the current entries as an object
const entries = dotEnv.dump();

console.log(entries);
// { key: 'value', foo: 'bar', baz: 'qux', ... }

// Save the changes back to the file
const success = dotEnv.save();

if (!success) {
  console.error('Failed to save changes');
}

CLI

npx dotenv-extra [<key> <value>...]

• Expects a .env file to be present and writable.
• File creation is intentionally not implemented.

2-liner example of quickly setting up a project:

cp .env.example .env

npx dotenv-extra APP_KEY 12345 APP_ENV production MAINTENANCE true