Management env variable with dotenv & TypeScript [JavaScript]

dotenv supports environment variable from .env file for Node.js project.

In this article, I would like to share initial configuration and some tip to use dotenv with TypeScript.

🐰 Installation

yarn add dotenv # npm install --save dotenv
yarn add @types/dotenv # npm install --dev-save @types/dotenv

🍄 Configuration

Add .env files in your project root, by the following command in terminal:

touch .env # for common configuration
touch .env.development # for dev configuration
touch .env.test # for test configuration

In .env files, you can write environment variables like this:

# Example
APP_ID=project_name
LOG_LEVEL=debug

After then, please add ./src/utils/config.ts to load the avobe files.

import * as dotenv from "dotenv";

dotenv.config();
let path;
switch (process.env.NODE_ENV) {
  case "test":
    path = `${__dirname}/../../.env.test`;
    break;
  case "production":
    path = `${__dirname}/../../.env.production`;
    break;
  default:
    path = `${__dirname}/../../.env.development`;
}
dotenv.config({ path: path });

export const APP_ID = process.env.APP_ID;
export const LOG_LEVEL = process.env.LOG_LEVEL;

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