Open Source Go Libraries

A Go (golang) port of the Ruby dotenv project (which loads env vars from a .env file). Storing configuration in the environment is one of the tenets of a twelve-factor app. Anything that is likely to change between deployment environments–such as resource handles for databases or credentials for external services–should be extracted from the code into environment variables. But it is not always practical to set environment variables on development machines or continuous integration servers where multiple projects are run. Dotenv load variables from a .env file into ENV when the environment is bootstrapped. It can be used as a library (for loading in env for your own daemons etc) or as a bin command. There is test coverage and CI for both linuxish and windows environments, but I make no guarantees about the bin version working on windows. Existing envs take precedence of envs that are loaded later.