remotenv

Fetch env variables from the online repository

Switch your .env file from

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3000
API_KEY1=...
API_KEY2=...
...
API_KEY99=...

To

REMOTE_ENV_API_KEY=...

and let this package do rest for you

1. First register on remotenv
2. Then create a new collection, that will represent your app
3. Then create a new environment and fill it with all variables
4. After that create a new API key and use it to fetch all other keys

Example usage

const RemoteEnv = require('remotenv');
const env = new RemoteEnv(REMOTE_ENV_API_KEY);

Fetch remote variables to a local object, if there is an error, a message will contain an error message

const { error, message } = await env.fetchEnvs();

You can use applyLive and store them to process.env and pass [callback] to be executed after that

env.applyLive(() => app.listen(process.env.PORT, ...));

Or you can store them to file and use them later with dotenv.config(). The default filename is .env.name (where name is the name of the environment on the website)

const { error, message } = await env.saveToFile(filename);

Also, there are two methods available if you want to do it manually

Returns JSON object with all variables

const { name, values } = env.getJson();

Returns a raw string with all variables key=value\n...

const values = env.getRaw();

Example usage with dotenv

  const RemoteEnv = require('remotenv');
  const env = new RemoteEnv(REMOTE_ENV_API_KEY);

  // handle if any error
  const { error, message } = await env.fetchEnvs();

  await env.saveToFile('.env.example');

  // later in your app
  const dotenv = require('dotenv');
  dotenv.config({ path: '.env.example' });

Now you can use process.env to access environmental variables as usual

All contributions are welcome Currently there is only npm package, if you make package for diferent language, let me know to list you here

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