heymichaelp / envbang-node

Ensure you have all the right environment variables set in your app.

EnvBang for Node.js

Ensure you have all the right environment variables set in your app.

Installation & Usage

As early as possible in your application require envbang and pass it your required environment variables.

EnvBang = require('envbang-node');
envbang = new EnvBang(['NODE_ENV', 'PORT', 'MONGOHQ_URL']);
// Once initialized, run #check() to ensure your environment variables are present
envbang.check();

If you are missing any environment variables, envbang will throw an error and give you a list of the variables you're missing:

The following required environment variables are missing:
=> NODE_ENV
=> PORT
=> MONGOHQ_URL

Inspiration

This package is meant to be used as a companion to dotenv-node. We are big fans of configuration via environment variables, but it can occasionally get a little crazy when you have a team of developers trying to keep up with changes to a .env file. The goal is to give clear feedback on application configuration to help reduce developer confusion and frustration.

References

• The Twelve Factor App
• jcamenisch/ENV_BANG - the original, written in Ruby

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Running tests

npm install
npm test