Support for dotenv (`.env`) files

[joselcvarela]

Expected Behavior

Support for dotenv files

Actual Behavior

Do not support dotenv files

Motivation

These files are specially useful in order to avoid to type same environment variables multiple times. In some cases, it also can be helpful to track them with a version controller.

That being said, zx could support this behaviour because:

• we may need these .env files in any folder
• we do not want to add package.json and install additional packages
• fetching data from remote or any other operation might need credentials that could be stored in these .env file

Related

https://github.com/google/zx/pull/327

[nhonx]

I think we should make this issue in a more generic way, not just loading dotenv file. I suggest doing it similar to the way docker did: load env variables from .config file. For example: zx --env-file=/foo/bar/cred.config script.mjs

[Cyberarray]

You can use this

require('dotenv').config({ path: __dirname+'/.env' });

[meanii]

can i work on this feature?

[ziimakc]

latest node support process.loadEnvFile(envVarsPath); out of the box