GO env

Reading GO env files into the current process's environmental variables.

This is an importable package thats meant to be a light weight environmental variable reader from files. The package allows you to set up your environment variables in a file that is kept outside your version control system.

The advantage of such an architecture is so you can keep all your secrets "secret"!.

How To Use env

You only need to import and load the module in your application to use it. e.g.

First create a .env file.

TOKEN=SuperSecretToken

If the file is in the root directory of your module, it will automatically be picked, no need to pass it as an argument to the Load() function.

package main

import (
    "github.com/arthurkay/env"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    env.Load()
    fmt.Printf("Application token key is %s", os.Getenv("TOKEN"))
}

NOTE:

If you name your .env file something else, please make sure you add it in the load function as a string argument.

...
env.Load("env_file")
...

You can even pass multiple files to the Load function. e.g

...
env.Load("env", "env_file")
...

Dont forget to add the .env file to your .gitignore file so the .env file is not included in your commits.