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motdotla/dotenv

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Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2014-12-31 · latest 2025-07-18

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  1. …There's also the classic left-pad debacle - https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/issues/4 [1] - https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/blob/master/package-lock.... [2] - https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/latest/package-lock.json [3] -…
    comment by ramones13 · 2023-02-15 · in The case for frameworks
  2. …consider dotenv, which began in Ruby: https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv And has travelled to Node: https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv And Go: https://github.com/joho/godotenv
    comment by twic · 2021-01-31 · in RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme
  3. …even in shell language. Adding `etcd` is better, but it's too much work for a small project. [1] https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv
    comment by califield · 2014-12-31 · in Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You