🚀 Create-Env 🚀

create-env is an utility to help you create .env files based on CI/CD environmental values.

Use case

You use Gitlab-CI/CD or another CI/CD to perform a build of a software artifact and you want to use the provided CI/CD secret variables as a .env file. This is where create-env comes to the rescue.

How it Works

You have defined your secret-variables inside of the CI/CD, and your variables uses a prefix like DEV_, TEST_, PROD_. create-env will take the current environment for your CI/CD pipeline, a prefix related to that environment, and the name of the file you want as output.

Then, it will generate that .env file, and remove the prefix of each secret-variable.

e.g:

• Your secret-variables:

TEST_NODE_ENV=production
TEST_PORT=8080

• Your .env file output:

NODE_ENV=production
PORT=8080

Installation

create-env needs to be installed as a global dependency:

NPM

npm i -g create-env

YARN

yarn global add create-env

Creating a .env file

To create a .env file you have to run create-env with the following parameters:

# Default 
create-env --env-file .env --env-prefix TEST_
 
# NPX 
npx create-env --env-file .env --env-prefix TEST_

create-env comes with a set of default prefixes (DEV_, TEST_, PROD_), if your secret-variables use those default prefixes, you can run create-env with the following parameters, the only thing your have to pass is the env which can be one of development, testing or production:

# Default 
create-env --env testing --env-file .env --use-default-prefix
 
# NPX 
npx create-env --env testing --env-file .env --use-default-prefix

TODO

• Add --from-template option. (In order to support .env generation based on another .env file).
• Add --no-prefix option. (In order to support generate a .env file with all the env variables).
• Add --type option. (In order to support other formats like JSON envs).
• Add --help option.

Issues

If you raise a bug, please, open an issue.

Contributing

PRs are welcome. Any kind of contribution is welcome.

License

create-env is licensed as MIT.