Dotenv

Usually, environment variables are defined in your CI and your deployment platform. But locally, you have to load them yourself. It's easy to do when running Frugal

Development mode

import { context } from "https://deno.land/x/frugal@0.9.2/mod.ts"
import { load } from "https://deno.land/std/dotenv/mod.ts";

await load();

const { default: config } = await import("./frugal.config.ts")

await context(config).watch()

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We load the environment variable using the `dotenv`` module in the standard library,.

Since environment variables are usually used in the configuration, you must dynamically import the config after loading the environment variable.

Production mode

The same modification can be done in your build.ts script. But be careful, you might end up overwriting CI environment variables with your .env in production.

To be safe, never commit the .env file. That way, even if the load runs in production, there will be no .env file to load from.

You can also use the CI environment variable that is usually set by CI platforms :

import { build } from "https://deno.land/x/frugal@0.9.2/mod.ts"
import { load } from "https://deno.land/std/dotenv/mod.ts";

if (!Deno.env.has("CI")) {
    await load()
}

const { default: config } = await import("./frugal.config.ts");

await build(config);

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