Inspect or return the environment variable NODE_ENV

node >=12

• Consult NODE_ENV known values (dev, development, production, prod)
• Give development as default value
• Return the raw value from NODE_ENV
• All queries are case-insensitive

Install node-environment with npm

  npm install node-environment

Using CommonJS modules

const { env } = require('node-environment')

Using ECMAScript modules

import { env } from 'node-environment'

process.env.NODE_ENV = 'dev'

env('development') // true
env('staging', 'development') // true
env('test', 'production') // false
env() // "dev"

The package only expose one function:

  env(): string
  env(query: string, ...otherEnvironments: string[]): boolean

prod == production

dev == development

Contributions are always welcome!

See contributing.md for ways to get started.

Please adhere to this project's code of conduct.

MIT