advanced-settings

Read application settings using advanced strategies like environment variables instead:

• .env
• hardcoded values in nodejs modules/classes

Requirements

• nodejs >= 10

Usage

• Create a file called: application.json at the root of workspace

{
  "foo": "${FOO_VALUE}",
  "bar": "baz"
}

• expose required environment variables

export FOO_VALUE=imthefoovalue

• add this snippet at the beginning of your application

const EnvSettings = require("advanced-settings").EnvSettings;
var envSettings = new EnvSettings();
var settings = envSettings.loadJsonFileSync("application.json", "utf8");
console.log(settings.foo);

• expose the settings variable to your application using your own approach.

• You can also use it as a promise

await envSettings.loadJsonFile("application.json", "utf8");

Inspiration

• how spring boot framework allow us to centralize the configuration of the app with a lot of features, one of them called Placeholders in properties
  • usage: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35535138/3957754
• environment variables usage is the best approach to handle the variables who change from environments: dev > testing > prod.
  • see how heroku does: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars

Contributors

JRichardsz