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Manage environment variables based on separate environment using es6

Manage environement variables based on separate environemnt using es6

What is problem

• dotenv only supports one file at a time ie dont offer variable overriding
• ie merging .env and .env.production is not possible out of the box.

Solution

• Use .env to set customer variables in node env
• Use es6 to merge and manage additional variables such as for production and development using javascript files

How to use it

• set common environement variables in .env
• set the environement variable in the script using package.json such

  "start": "NODE_ENV=production nodemon --exec babel-node src/index.js",

• Use following import to get envinonement varialbes import env from './../env/'

How to create new environment variables

Create files inside env/{environment}.js based on the environment of your choice

Things to do

Files to .gitignore

env/*
!env/index.js

How to test

run yarn to install package

test

development

yarn dev

production

yarn start