envm

A command line tool help to manage the environment file.

Setup

Run the following command to generate envm repository at current directory.

envm init

The command will generate a .envm directory at current directory, and contains config and CURRENT file.

Config

The config file should look like as follow.

local = ".env"
pattern = ".env.{}"
template = ".env.example"

local is the file your progame used to read the environment variables, for example the docker compose will read from .env.

pattern is the pattern of environment file, for example if we have two environment file .env.dev and .env.production, the pattern will be .env.{}, the {} will used to replace by environment name.

template is the template environment file, use to generate other environment file.