cli executable

Hi Dan, I’d like to introduce a cli executable which would work similar to https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-cli (calling a command from the argv after setting ENV), but load dotenv-flow internally and possibly those -e and -p options. My use case: calling k6 from cli with dotenv-flow k6 -- run load-tests.js

It would be a simple script, but will probably come with additional dependencies (cross-spawn and minimist, …and maybe, just maybe dotenv-expand 🤔 although I personally don’t need it atm)

Would you prefer to have it as a separate package dotenv-flow-cli or rather integrated into this repo? Maybe you have an idea how to do it better - with less or no dependencies? (to keep the zero-dependency policy)

[falkenhawk]

Package published: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-flow-cli

[kerimdzhanov]

Hi Maciej,

Sounds good! I think it would be better to have a separate package, and that’s why:

I want to keep dotenv-flow as lightweight as possible. Actually, I was planning to remove the dotenv module from dependencies, implementing the .parse() method as a part of this module, thus making it really zero-dependent.

As for the executable like dotenv-cli, I think it’s not possible (at least not reasonable) to implement it without adding some dependencies.