Phoenix: dotenv file

[Sjoerd]

• Elixir version (elixir -v): 1.8
• Phoenix version (mix deps): 1.4
• NodeJS version (node -v): 11.10.1
• NPM version (npm -v): I'm using yarn
• Operating system: Windows 10

It would be nice to have a .env file, instead of setting the variables globally.

[rmoorman]

@Sjoerrdd could you elaborate a bit more what you would like to see implemented? I guess you would like to have some wrapper around System.get_env/1 which also looks for .env files so you could use that in your say, dev.exs instead of System.get_env/1, would that be correct?

As for environment variables and setting them for your project, did you already have a look at tools like direnv or autoenv which do some environment variable switching for you?

Personally I currently find myself managing configuration through either explicit values in the dev.exs and test.exs, or through System.get_env/1 in production where I have settings fed through init scripts or docker.

[Sjoerd]

Exactly @rmoorman! 🙃
Thanks for the quick response,
At the moment I use the standard config files, but my preference is for a .env file as in Adonis & Laravel.

[hauleth]

@Sjoerrdd use system level .env file parser like direnv instead.

[rmoorman]

@Sjoerrdd yet another option to utilize .env files would be a Procfile based tool like foreman or honcho.

[chrismccord]

The issues tracker is not for feature requests, per the issue template. Thanks!