Installation

As a library

go get github.com/lpernett/godotenv

or if you want to use it as a bin command

go >= 1.17

go install github.com/lpernett/godotenv/cmd/godotenv@latest

go < 1.17

go get github.com/lpernett/godotenv/cmd/godotenv

Usage

Add your application configuration to your .env file in the root of your project:

S3_BUCKET=YOURS3BUCKET
SECRET_KEY=YOURSECRETKEYGOESHERE

Then in your Go app you can do something like

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"

    "github.com/lpernett/godotenv"
)

func main() {
  err := godotenv.Load()
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("Error loading .env file")
  }

  s3Bucket := os.Getenv("S3_BUCKET")
  secretKey := os.Getenv("SECRET_KEY")

  // now do something with s3 or whatever
}