envy

envy allows transparent access to both environment variables and .env file.

Description

Applications access environment variables differently based on situation:

• During development, an application obtains environment variables via the .env file
• In production, an application obtains shell environment variables via Deno.env

Ideally, the application code to access environment variables should be the same whether it is via .env file or via Deno.env.

envy makes that possible.

Usage

import { load } from "https://deno.land/x/envy/mod.ts";

const env = await load();

console.log(env["PORT"]);

envy loads both the .env file and the Deno.env object, then combine them into a single object. The application can then access the environment variables transparently. It follows these rules:

• It follows deno convention by using the standard library to load .env behind the scene
• If .env file does not exist, it simply ignores it and proceeds
• If the same variable exists in multiple places, shell environment variable takes precedence.
• envy creates a new object to hold the loaded environment variables, without modifying the Deno.env object.