dotenvcrypt

A package designed to help teams use secret enviroment variables together, without the security risk

Install

npm install dotenvcrypt --save

Usage

Step 1

Navigate to the root if your project Generate the encryted env file on the command line with

npx dotenvcrypt MyPasswordString

This will generate your .env.enc file to push to version control

Step 2

Add this snippet to your code

const { decrypt } = require('dotenvcrypt');

decrypt(process.env.YOUR_ENV_KEY);

NOTE: dotenv is not required for the variables to be loaded

Step 3

Share the password with your team They then save it inside there personal .bashrc/.bash_profile using

export YOUR_ENV_KEY="MyPasswordString"

Which can now be accessed from the node instance, which will now decode and read the env variables into the app