envoyage

A zero-dependency, type-safe environment variable management library for TypeScript applications. envoyage allows you to define environment configurations with multiple resolution strategies while maintaining full type safety across different deployment environments.

envoyage is completely agnostic about how your variables are loaded, it solely provides a safe way to declare your environment structure based on your specific requirements.

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Features

• Type-Safe Environment Management: Define environments with their data structures and resolution methods with full TypeScript support
• Multiple Resolution Strategies: Support for hardcoded values, environment variables, secrets, and custom resolution methods
• Async/Sync Resolution: Handle both synchronous and asynchronous variable resolution (e.g., fetching from external APIs)
• Dynamic Variables: Support for runtime-provided values through dynamic resolution
• Environment Registry: Centralized management of multiple environments (local, staging, production, etc.)
• Variable Registry: Define variables once and configure how they resolve across different environments
• Merge Support: Combine multiple variable registries for modular configuration
• Secure Data Handling: Built-in protection against accidental logging of sensitive values through redacted data patterns

Installation

npm install envoyage
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Quick Start

import { createEnvironmentRegistry, defineType } from 'envoyage'

// Define your environments
const envReg = createEnvironmentRegistry()
  .addEnv(
    "local",
    defineType<{ env: Record<string, string> }>(),
    (env) => env
      .addResolution("hardcoded", defineType<string>(), (data) => data.payload)
      .addResolution("from-env", defineType<string | undefined>(), (data) =>
        data.envData.env[data.payload ?? data.variableName])
  )
  .addEnv(
    "production",
    defineType<{ secrets: Record<string, string> }>(),
    (env) => env
      .addResolution("hardcoded", defineType<string>(), (data) => data.payload)
      .addResolution("from-secrets", defineType<string | undefined>(), (data) =>
        data.envData.secrets[data.payload ?? data.variableName])
  )

// Define your variables
const varReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .addVar("DATABASE_URL", (v) => v
    .for("local", "from-env")
    .for("production", "from-secrets"))
  .addVar("IS_PRODUCTION", (v) => v
    .for("local", "hardcoded", "false")
    .for("production", "hardcoded", "true"))

// Create a resolver for a specific environment
const localResolver = varReg.createResolver(
  "local",
  { env: { DATABASE_URL: "localhost:5432/myapp" } }
)

console.log(localResolver.get("DATABASE_URL")) // "localhost:5432/myapp"
console.log(localResolver.get("IS_PRODUCTION")) // "false"
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Core Concepts

Environment Registry

An EnvironmentRegistry manages multiple environments, each with their own data structure and resolution methods:

const envReg = createEnvironmentRegistry()
  .addEnv("local", defineType<LocalEnvData>(), configureLocalEnv)
  .addEnv("production", defineType<ProdEnvData>(), configureProdEnv)
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Environments

Each environment defines:

• Name: A unique identifier (e.g., "local", "production")
• Data Type: The structure of environment-specific data
• Resolutions: Methods for resolving variable values

.addEnv(
  "workflows",
  defineType<{ githubSecrets: Record<string, string> }>(),
  (env) => env
    .addResolution("hardcoded", defineType<string>(), (data) => data.payload)
    .addResolution("from-github-secrets", defineType<string | undefined>(), (data) =>
      data.envData.githubSecrets[data.payload ?? data.variableName])
    .addResolution("from-aws-secrets", defineType<undefined>(), async (data) => {
      // Async resolution example
      const secret = await fetchFromAWS(data.variableName)
      return secret
    })
)
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Variable Registry

A VariableRegistry defines environment variables and how they should be resolved in each environment:

const varReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .addVar("API_KEY", (v) => v
    .for("local", "from-env")
    .for("production", "from-aws-secrets"))
  .addVar("APP_NAME", (v) => v
    .for("local", "hardcoded", "MyApp-Dev")
    .for("production", "hardcoded", "MyApp"))
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Dynamic Variables

For runtime-provided values:

const varReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .addVar("DOCUMENT_BUCKET", (v) => v
    .dynamicFor("local", "bucketName")
    .for("production", "from-secrets"))

// Provide dynamic data when creating the resolver
const resolver = varReg.createResolver(
  "local",
  envData,
  { bucketName: "my-local-bucket" }
)
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Resolvers

Create environment-specific resolvers to access variable values:

const resolver = varReg.createResolver("production", {
  secrets: { API_KEY: "secret-value" }
})

// Get a single variable value
const apiKey = resolver.get("API_KEY") // Type-safe access

// Get all accessible variables
const allValues = await resolver.getAll()
// { API_KEY: "secret-value", APP_NAME: "MyApp", ... }

// Get variables that use a specific resolution in another environment
const hardcodedInLocal = resolver.getAllFor("local", "hardcoded")
// Gets values from production for variables that use "hardcoded" in local
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Additional Features

Async Resolution

envoyage automatically handles async resolutions:

// If the resolution is async, the return type becomes Promise<string>
const apiKey = await resolver.get("API_KEY")
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Merging Variable Registries

Combine multiple variable registries for modular configuration:

const authVarReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .addVar("AUTH_SECRET", (v) => v.for("local", "from-env"))

const dbVarReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .addVar("DATABASE_URL", (v) => v.for("local", "from-env"))

const globalVarReg = envReg.createVariableRegistry()
  .mergeWith(authVarReg)
  .mergeWith(dbVarReg)
  .addVar("APP_VERSION", (v) => v.for("local", "hardcoded", "1.0.0"))
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Variable Source Validation

The listVariables method enables writing validation scripts to ensure all required environment variables are properly configured:

// Get all variables that should be in your .env file
const envVars = varReg.listVariables("local", "from-env")

// Example validation script
const validateEnvFile = function () {
  const missingVars = envVars.filter(name => !process.env[name])
  if (missingVars.length > 0)
    throw new Error(
      `Missing required environment variables in .env: ${missingVars.join(", ")}`
    )
}
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Dynamic Environment Selection

For runtime environment selection while maintaining type safety:

const resolver = varReg.createDynamicResolver({
  local: [{ env: process.env }],
  production: [{ secrets: await getSecrets() }]
}, () => process.env.NODE_ENV === "production" ? "production" : "local")

// Only variables defined in ALL environments are accessible
const value = resolver.get("SHARED_VARIABLE")
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Type Safety

envoyage provides complete type safety across all aspects of environment configuration - from environment names and resolution methods to variable definitions and return types. The TypeScript compiler ensures your environment configuration is valid at compile time.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.