The main source of inspiration for this was the need to build a lightweight, self-hosted method to store and share .env files in an organized manner. There are other tools which can do this, but they are overkill and overweight for this use case.

The current version performs all actions locally on the current system, but v2 will add support to give global access.

Features

Create separate environments for different sets of environment variables
Switch between environments with a simple command
Update environments with any changes made
Pin an environment to a project to auto pull the environment on a fresh initialization of the project
Format .env files and open them in your default editor
Export all environments created as separate files

Installation

You need to have Go 1.25.0 installed.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/silicoflare/envy

Install dependencies and build the binary

make

Move the envy binary in the dist directory to PATH

Commands

envy

Enable or disable environment variables in the current .env file (comment or uncomment)

envy init

Initializes envy in your config directory
Creates a config and a database file to store environments

envy create

In a directory with no project, it creates a project and an environment with the .env file in that directory
In a directory with an existing project, it creates an environment
An envy.toml file is created

envy list

List all the environments in the current project

envy switch

Switch to another environment in the same project
.env file content is replaced with the new one

envy update

Update the current environment data with new data

envy pin

Pin an environment to the envy.toml file

envy fetch

Fetch the pinned environment in a fresh project without a .env file (like installing dependencies)

envy pretty

Format .env file in UNIX format (KEY=Value)

envy export

Export each environment in the project as a separate .env file

envy edit

Open .env file in the default editor