config-autoload

Npm module for autoloading config files. It uses https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv module for loading environment variables from .env file

quick start

create same folder and file structure

    myapp/config
    myapp/config/.env
    myapp/config/config.js

config.js example :

var path = require('path');
var _ = require('lodash');
 
module.exports = {
    path : path.normalize(__dirname + "/.."),
    name : process.env.NAME,
    port : _.parseInt( process.env.PORT )
};

.env example

NAME=xyz
PORT=3306

later in code require config-autoload and have access to object defined in config.js

var config = require('config-autoload');
console.log(config); 
//output
{ 
    path : '/home/xyz/myapp/', 
    name : 'xyz', 
    port : 3306  
}

create a folder for config files myapp/config

for development create a .env file with env variables

myapp/config/.env

create a config.js file for handling variables

myapp/config/config.js