// Stefan Judis · 5 January 2026

Automatically load .env files in Node.js scripts (#tilPost)

Node.js continues to follow the lead of competing runtimes and implements more and more userland features. Loading .env files was one of these features that's been solved in userland (dotenv has 46m weekly downloads) since I started writing Node.js code almost 15 years ago. Today I learned that Node...

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