Show HN: I just fixed .env once and for all – better-env(better-env.dev)

8 pointsby harish33048 miesięcy temu4 comments

Show HN: I just fixed .env once and for all – better-env

https://better-env.dev

.env files have always felt archaic, insecure, clunky and honestly just not fun to work with. I see my friends (and myself) accidentally committing them all the time. Managing secrets across projects becomes a mess of copy-pasting keys into scattered env files with no real way to sync anything.

So I built better-env: a secure, developer-friendly alternative to .env.

Store your secrets once in a global encrypted store, and load them per-project at runtime.

I’d love feedback on whether this feels useful beyond solo devs, and what you’d want for teams or CI setups.

Fully open source: https://github.com/HarishChandran3304/better-env

4 comments

itsanaccount8 miesięcy temu

if you believe like i do that gpg is an awful dead and outdated tool you'd never enforce on your worst enemy, its a good time to mention sops supports age.

https://github.com/chrisdeutsch/direnv-sops

robinroy038 miesięcy temu

I was searching for something like this. So will other developers of the repo also need the tool?

harish33048 miesięcy temu

Yes, they can just clone and directly run the app with their own set of secrets if better-env is set up.

bootesvoid8 miesięcy temu

ts so peak