Barricade

Barricade is a small library that allows you to setup environment variable from a single env.yml file. It parses the YAML file and loads all of the configuration values into the process.env object.

It has built-in support for multiple NODE_ENV.

Installation

npm install --save barricade

Usage

Add the following line at the top of your application JS file:

 require('barricade')

The library expects a YAML file (env.yml) at the root of your application. Given the following YAML file:

# env.yml 
 
APP_SECRET: hello_world
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: secret_key_for_both_development_and_test
 
production:
    STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: secret_key_used_only_in_production

You can then start your application and access those values from the process.env object. Example:

// index.js
 
require('barricade')
 
console.log(process.env.APP_SECRET) // hello_world
console.log(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY) // secret_key_for_both_development_and_test
 
// Switch the Node environment to production
process.env.NODE_ENV = 'production'
 
console.log(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY) // secret_key_used_only_in_production

Licence

MIT