.evn
files are used to hold project-related environment variables. This can be helpful if you want to decouple some configuration details from you application logic and/or hide some sensitive information (you don't normally check in this type of files into you repo). An example of a .evn
file could be:
API_KEY=secret
PG='{"user":"angryobject","host":"some.remove.server","database":"testing","password":"strongpa$$word","port":5432}'
And example usage as follows: