gen-env-template

Generate template .env.example file from your .env file.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Why?

A well documented template .env file helps set up the app.

How to use?

This package exposes both a CLI and an SDK.

CLI Usage

Install the tool

• You can install gen-env-template as a devDependency.

$ npm i -D gen-env-template

$ pnpm i -D gen-env-template

$ yarn add --dev gen-env-template

You can now use the command like so:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/gen-env-template [path to input .env]=.env [path to output .env]=.env.example

Usage with npx:

$ npx gen-env-template [path to input .env]=.env [path to output .env]=.env.example

(genv is a shorthand command which can be used interchangeably.)

This will write the output to the path specified.

SDK Usage

The main import exposes a function with takes in the string contents of the .env file and returns the template string output

const genEnvTemplate = require('gen-env-template')

const inputString = 'NODE_ENV=development'

console.log(genEnvTemplate(inputString))

>> NODE_ENV=

Licensing

This project uses the MIT license as explained here.

Contributing

This project is Open-Source and I'm happy to hear feedback and receive improvements through Issues and PRs. For quick response, I'm the most active on twitter @mrsauravsahu

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

What's new? 🎉 🥳

• v2.1.1 - Audit fixes and dependency updates
• v2.1.0 - Improv: Ability to read multiline variables
• v2.0.7 - Feat: Ability to remove region comments #region safe, #endregion safe
• v2.0.6 - CI: Improvement (Use matrix builds to test on Windows, Linux and Mac)
• v2.0.5 - Fix npm audit issues & bump node version
• v2.0.4 - Update npm dependencies
• v2.0.3 - Fix @oclif/command not found - move to dependencies
• v2.0.2 - Bump all npm package versions
• v2.0.1 - NPM audit fixes
• v2.0.0 - Add format -f switch. Generate template-env or markdown format
• v1.0.10 - Preserve LF or CRLF line endings from the input env file
• v1.0.9 - Add -d or --dry-run switch to output to console
• v1.0.8 - Remove whitespaces around key
• v1.0.7 - Add safe region to keep sample values
• v1.0.6 - Create CLI with OCLIF
• v1.0.5 - Add alias command genv
• v1.0.4 - Use gen-env-template through npx or pnpx
• v1.0.3 - No usage change. Setup CI/CD
• v1.0.2 - Trim bundle by ignoring files in .npmignore
• v1.0.0 - Basic template generator