lookenv

Set rules for the environment variables in your project.

lookenv can check if all the variables you need are present before starting your app. It also can set defaults for those variables that are not present. Works fine with dotenv or dotenv-safe.

Installation

npm install lookenv --save

# Or with yarn
yarn add lookenv

Usage example

Create a lookenv.config.js file, or .lookenvrc that exposes a JSON like the following:

module.exports = {
  MY_ENV_VAR: {
    required: true
  },
  MY_SECOND_ENV_VAR: {
    default: 'testing'
  }
}

Then, add lookenv to the package.json start script, before the app starts but after dotenv (if you are using it!).

{
  "start": "lookenv -- node index.js"
}

You can also specify a path to the config file, or the directory where the config file by passing --path or -p.

{
  "start": "lookenv --path=lookenv.config.js -- node index.js"
}

With dotenv

You can pass a --dotenv (or -d for short) to the cli to load dotenv before validating the env vars.

  "start": "lookenv --dotenv -- node index.js"

You can optionally pass the location of your .env in the --dotenv option, like lookenv --dotenv=/path/to/custom/env -- node index.js.

With Joi

Joi, the object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects.

Lookenv recognizes and supports Joi schemas from the config files. In order to do so, please remember to install (npm install --save joi) in your project. And then, export the Joi schema in your lookenv.config.js file.

const Joi = require('joi');

module.exports = Joi.object().keys({
  A_NUMBER: Joi.number().required(),
  A_STRING: Joi.string().required(),
  AN_OBJECT: Joi.string().required(),

  A_PORT: Joi.number()
    .positive()
    .default(3000),

  A_NUMBER_WITH_DEFAULTS: Joi.number().default(7),
  A_STRING_WITH_DEFAULTS: Joi.string().default('seven')
})

This means that you can use the entire Joi Schema API to validate your env vars.

Using it just for setting defaults

Everything would be the same, but you can use the simplified lookenv.config.js (or .lookenvrc) json that matches every key with a default.

{
  "MY_ENV_VAR": "my-default",
  "MY_2ND_ENV_VAR": "other-default"
}

You can also combine them!

{
  "MY_ENV_VAR": "my-default",
  "MY_2ND_ENV_VAR": {
    "required": true
  }
}

API

lookenv.config({ path }) This method will only call the config and return the set of rules, it won't do any validation.

lookenv.validate({ path, context }) This method will get the config for the lookenv.config.js (or .lookenvrc) from the current working directory (using process.cwd()), unless you specify a path to the config file in question.

After that, it will validate the context (that is process.env as default) and apply all the defaults.

If there is a required variable that isn't present, it will throw an error specifying the missing variables.

Programmatic use

const lookenv = require('lookenv')

lookenv.validate()
  .then(() => {
    // ... your app goes here, basically...
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error)
    process.exit(1)
  })

Remember that lookenv.validate is async.

Development setup

This project use ava to run tests. Just fork it.

npm test

# Or with yarn
yarn test

Release History

See CHANGELOG.md

Meta

REC – @reciam – [email protected]

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/lookenv

Credits of the logo goes to @guillecura.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/RodrigoEspinosa/lookenv/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/foo-bar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some foo and bar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/foo-bar)
5. Create a new Pull Request