Environment Variables: For and Against (gist.github.com)

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All they had to do was change the file extension to .md

I thought it was normal practice not to export environment variables so they are only available to a particular process.

I think env variables are bad for passing info between processes, but are good for loading different configurations into processes consistently.

I always load my env from some config file, but I like that the apps don’t care how config gets stored. I like the abstraction of the process not needing to be aware of how config is managed.