sprawl

About

sprawl sets and/or gets environment variables.

Documentation

Installation

Use sprawl as you would any CommonJS Node module.

Example

const sprawl = require('sprawl');

or via destructuring

const { current, isProduction, seize } = require('sprawl');

Properties

.current

Returns the current environment (via process.env.NODE_ENV)

Example

sprawl.current // => 'test'

.environments

Returns an array of valid environments

Current valid environments

• development
• test
• staging
• production

Example

sprawl.environments // => [ 'development', 'production', 'staging', 'test' ]

.isProduction

Returns a boolean if the current environment is production

Example

sprawl.isProduction // => true

Methods

#seize(name, value)

Sets an environment variable.

Arguments

• name — <String>
• value — <Number>, <Object>, <String>

Examples

sprawl.seize('JENNYS_PHONENUM', 8675309) // => '8675309'
sprawl.seize('JENNYS_RELEASE_DATE', { development: '1981' }) // => '1981'
sprawl.seize('JENNYS_RECORD_LABEL', 'Columbia Records') // => 'Columbia Records'

Notes

• All values are converted to <String>
• If using an <Object> as the value, only valid environments are allowed as keys.

#seize(name)

Returns an environment variable.

Arguments

• name — <String>

Example

sprawl.seize('JENNYS_PHONENUM') // => '8675309'