This repo contains different branches. Each branch shows an alternative to loading env variables using dotenv. Not all branches have a working version, and that's done on purpose.
Please checkout each branch and refer to the README.md for details.
To run each app, use npm start
All examples are executed using [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
This branch uses babel-node to execute ES6 code. It loads .env by importing dotenv/config.
This app works. Output:
richardkaufman @ kaufman in ~/D/h/c/dotenv-es6 master
↪ npm start
> [email protected] start /Users/richardkaufman/Dropbox/home/code/dotenv-es6
> babel-node index.js
A message has been left for you:
hello world!
Why and how does this version work? The first line in our code is: import {} from 'dotenv/config' This is pretty much a hack to make dotenv work as expected. When node imports the module, our module gets executed. If we take a look at the code for dotenv/config we see a self-executing anonymous function. So, in the process of importing it, it gets executed and our env vars get loaded.
Please read about more importing modules in the branch import-dotenv-then-config