evault-cli

Secure cross-platform TUI + CLI for managing environment variables. npm wrapper around the Rust binary published at github.com/stescobedo92/hide-env-keys.

The package is published as evault-cli on npm because the shorter name evault was rejected by npm's anti-squat policy (too close to the existing vault package). The binary the package installs is still called evault.

Install

# Global install
npm install -g evault-cli

# Project-local
npm install --save-dev evault-cli
npx evault

The package uses npm optionalDependencies for platform binaries. The wrapper resolves the matching optional package at runtime; no network download or script runs during npm install. Supported platforms:

| Platform | Architectures | |---|---| | macOS | x64, arm64 (Apple Silicon) | | Linux | x64 | | Windows | x64 |

For platforms not listed above, install from source instead:

cargo install evault-cli

Usage

# Launch the interactive TUI
evault

# Or use any subcommand non-interactively
evault ls
evault add API_KEY --secret
evault link API_KEY --project ./my-app
evault run --project ./my-app -- npm start

See the main repository README for the full feature set, including:

• TUI dashboard with CRUD, link-to-project, view-value, run-in-project, fuzzy filter
• Native OS keyring storage for secrets (Credential Manager / Keychain / Secret Service)
• Optional SQLCipher encryption for the metadata DB
• evault.toml project manifest with profiles for dev / staging / prod
• Source-code scanner that finds orphan and unused variables

Where the binary lives

After install, the native binary is at:

node_modules/evault-cli-darwin-x64/bin/evault
node_modules/evault-cli-darwin-arm64/bin/evault
node_modules/evault-cli-linux-x64/bin/evault
node_modules/evault-cli-windows-x64/bin/evault.exe

Troubleshooting

optional package ... is not installed — reinstall with optional dependencies enabled. Avoid --omit=optional for this package, or install from source with cargo install evault-cli.

unsupported platform ... — the npm package does not currently ship a pre-built binary for that OS/CPU pair. Install from source with cargo install evault-cli.

platform package is installed but binary is missing — the platform package publish is incomplete. Open an issue at github.com/stescobedo92/hide-env-keys/issues.

License

MIT