How to use nodemon with .env files?

Question

I am using an .env file to hold environment variables for the server. This works if I run the server with foreman start. But it doesn\'t work with nodemon.

I would

Answer 1

With recent versions of Node (since io.js 1.6), you can pass it the -r flag to require a module on start. This lets you directly load .env by using nodemon's --exec:

nodemon --exec 'node -r dotenv/config'

This requires the npm package dotenv to be installed.