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2023-03-24 .env files in Eleventy The Eleventy docs recommend the dotenv package for working with .env files, but I've found dotenv-flow to be a bit more useful inasmuch as support for .env* file patterns make development more convenient. false
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dotenv-flow:

dotenv-flow extends dotenv adding the ability to have multiple .env* files like .env.development, .env.test and .env.production, also allowing defined variables to be overwritten individually in the appropriate .env*.local file.

The Eleventy docs recommend the dotenv package for working with .env files1, but I've found dotenv-flow to be a bit more useful inasmuch as support for .env* file patterns make development more convenient.


  1. Which is awesome — it works perfectly. ↩︎