env

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• func Load(envFileName string)

Variables

var (
	// Port is the PORT environment variable or 8080 if missing.
	// Used to open the tcp listener for our web server.
	Port string
	// DSN is the DSN environment variable or mongodb://localhost:27017 if missing.
	// Used to connect to the mongodb.
	DSN string
)

Functions

func Load

func Load(envFileName string)

Load loads environment variables that are being used across the whole app. Loading from file(s), i.e .env or dev.env

Example of a 'dev.env': PORT=8080 DSN=mongodb://localhost:27017

After `Load` the callers can get an environment variable via `os.Getenv`.