jaune-env package

Simple JS utility that allows to get properties from an object by section or path. Plus it can pull from different sections if environment is production or testing.

Install

npm install jaune-env

Run tests

npm test

How to use

/* have your config object */
var config = {
  api : {
    host : 'http://test-api/v1',
    port : 80
  }
};

/* require jaune-env */
var jaune_env = require('jaune-env');

/* create a new instance of environment with configuration */
var env = new jaune_env(config);

/* get api host */
env.getEnvProperty('api.host'); // http://test-api/v1

/* get the api object */
env.getEnvProperty('api'); // api : { host : 'http://test-api/v1', port : 80 }

/* sometimes you may want to specify properties as parent.property */
env.getEnvProperty('api', 'host'); // http://test-api/v1

Have different configuration depending of your environment

Let's have our config for production and development in the same object:

/* have your config object */
var config = {
  api : {
    host : 'http://test-api/v1',
    port : 80
  },
  foo: true,
  api-dev : {
    host : 'http://test-api-dev/v1',
    port : 8080
  }
};

Let`s tell jaune-env we are running under development

env.setProcessProperty('env', 'dev');

After that all properties look up will be performed first on {property}-dev and if not found; we fallback to {property}:

env.getEnvProperty('api'); // --> object from apiDevelop

env.getEnvProperty('foo'); // true

Getting information from env variables

Both getEnvProperty and getProcessProperty will first check for the property to exist in an environment variable.

For getEnvProperty it will concat section and property with a dot in the middle if both are specified.

Also getEnvProperty will convert to object if value is a valid JSON.