Env Magic

Manage your environment variables like magic. Just import env from envmagic and use it like you would process.env. By default, accessing undefined or empty environment variables throws an error.

import { env } from "envmagic";

// Throws an error if NODE_ENV is undefined or ""
const { NODE_ENV } = env;

Motivation

I think we've all seen and written code that looks a lot like this.

import assert from "node:assert";

const { FOO } = process.env;

assert(FOO, "FOO is required!");

This is error prone, ugly, and can easily become outdated. It's time to automate your environment variable access.

Customization

Env Magic aims to be highly customizable. You may import the configuration object and change setting in your application code, or you can set most setting via environment variables.

Property	Env	Default	Description
onMissing	MAGIC_ENV_ON_MISSING	error	Action taken for missing (undefined) variables
onEmpty	MAGIC_ENV_ON_EMPTY	error	Action taken for missing ("") variables
optional	MAGIC_ENV_OPTIONAL	[]	Variables for which no action should be taken
logger	n/a	console.warn	Custom logger function

import { configuration } from "envmagic";

configuration.set("onMissing", "warn");
configuration.set("onEmpty", "warn");
configuration.set("logger", (message) => {
  // implement custom logger here
});
configuration.set("optional", ["OPTIONAL_VARIABLE"]);

Actions

Actions are the things that Env Magic can do in response to missing or empty environment variables.

• error: Throws an error indicating a given variable is missing or empty
• warn: Logs a warning indicating a given variable is missing or empty
• null: Returns null when the given environment variable is missing or empty
• undefined: Returns undefined when the given environment variable is missing or