Import in Your App

Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.envless.cloud/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

The runtime mode populates process.env and exposes a typed env object directly to your code. No .env files on disk, no dotenv step, no process.env.X typos that silently return undefined.

import { env } from '@goenvless/envless';

env.DATABASE_URL    // string, autocompleted, throws if missing
env.PORT            // number, coerced from the schema

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Five-minute setup

npm install @goenvless/envless

npm install -g @goenvless/envless

envless login
envless link
envless passphrase set

envless types

import { env } from '@goenvless/envless';

const db = new Database(env.DATABASE_URL);

npm run dev

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What you can delete

• Your .env / .env.local / .env.development files (or keep them — real env still wins as override).
• dotenv and dotenv-cli from package.json.
• Any t3-env / envalid / hand-rolled validation — the schema lives in Envless now.
• .env.* entries in .gitignore.

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What it looks like in practice

import { env } from '@goenvless/envless';

const db = new Database({
    url: env.DATABASE_URL,          // string, required
    poolSize: env.DB_POOL_SIZE,     // number, optional with default
});

const stripe = new Stripe(env.STRIPE_SECRET);

if (env.FEATURE_X_ENABLED) {        // boolean, from the schema
    enableFeatureX();
}

Every property is autocompleted. Misspell one and TypeScript fails the build. Miss a required value and it throws at boot with a useful message.

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Framework-specific setup

Next.js

App Router, Pages Router, Edge.

Vite

SPAs, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix-on-Vite.

Node

Express, Fastify, Hono, scripts.

Bun

Preload hook or direct import.

Workers / Edge

Cloudflare, Vercel Edge, Netlify Edge.

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Next steps

Server vs Client

Split visibility so secrets never end up in your client bundle.

Typed Variables

How codegen, coercion, and validation work.