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Environment Variable Management

Libraries for loading, parsing, and managing environment variables from .env files and other sources, enabling applications to securely store configuration outside of code.

10 projects

6,104 contributors

$4.4M

direnv

direnv is a shell extension that automatically loads and unloads environment variables depending on the current directory. It helps manage project-specific environment variables by reading .envrc files when entering directories and restoring the environment when leaving.

Contributors

1,699

Organizations

742

Software value

$273K

dotenv

A zero-dependency Node.js module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env, enabling secure configuration management for applications

Contributors

1,314

Organizations

500

Software value

$83K

devenv

A development environment manager that creates reproducible shells and development environments using Nix, allowing developers to declare all dependencies and tools needed for a project in a single file

Contributors

1,301

Organizations

500

Software value

$3.7M

npm-run-path

A Node.js module that adds locally installed binaries to the PATH environment variable, allowing access to executables from node_modules/.bin in npm scripts and child processes

Contributors

709

Organizations

399

Software value

$217K

nix-direnv

A tool that integrates Nix with direnv to automatically load development environments defined in .envrc files, providing seamless shell environment management based on Nix expressions

Contributors

382

Organizations

156

Software value

$22K

GoDotEnv

A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

Contributors

341

Organizations

145

Software value

$34K

dotenv-webpack

A webpack plugin that loads environment variables from a .env file into the build process, allowing secure configuration management in webpack applications

Contributors

291

Organizations

96

Software value

$29K

std-env

A JavaScript/TypeScript utility library for standardizing environment variable access and detection across different runtime environments, providing consistent APIs for checking Node.js, browser, development/production modes, and other environment-specific features

Contributors

67

Organizations

37

Software value

$26K

bkeepers-dotenv-ruby-gem

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

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