Environment variables

There are a few ways to use environment variables in Deno:

Built-in Deno.env

The Deno runtime offers built-in support for environment variables with Deno.env.

Deno.env has getter and setter methods. Here is example usage:

Deno.env.set("FIREBASE_API_KEY", "examplekey123");
Deno.env.set("FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN", "firebasedomain.com");

console.log(Deno.env.get("FIREBASE_API_KEY")); // examplekey123
console.log(Deno.env.get("FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN")); // firebasedomain.com
console.log(Deno.env.has("FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN")); // true

.env file

You can also put environment variables in a .env file and retrieve them using dotenv in the standard library.

Let's say you have an .env file that looks like this:

PASSWORD=Geheimnis

To access the environment variables in the .env file, import the load function from the standard library. Then, import the configuration using it.

import { load } from "https://deno.land/std@0.222.0/dotenv/mod.ts";

const env = await load();
const password = env["PASSWORD"];

console.log(password);
// "Geheimnis"

std/cli

The Deno standard library has a std/cli module for parsing command line arguments.

Special environment variables

The Deno runtime has these special environment variables.

name	description
DENO_AUTH_TOKENS	A semi-colon separated list of bearer tokens and hostnames to use when fetching remote modules from private repositories (e.g. abcde12345@deno.land;54321edcba@github.com)
DENO_TLS_CA_STORE	Comma-separated list of order dependent certificate stores. Possible values: system, mozilla. Defaults to mozilla.
DENO_CERT	Load certificate authority from PEM encoded file
DENO_DIR	Set the cache directory
DENO_INSTALL_ROOT	Set deno install's output directory (defaults to $HOME/.deno/bin)
DENO_REPL_HISTORY	Set REPL history file path History file is disabled when the value is empty (defaults to $DENO_DIR/deno_history.txt)
DENO_NO_PACKAGE_JSON	Disables auto-resolution of package.json
DENO_NO_PROMPT	Set to disable permission prompts on access (alternative to passing --no-prompt on invocation)
DENO_NO_UPDATE_CHECK	Set to disable checking if a newer Deno version is available
DENO_V8_FLAGS	Set V8 command line options
DENO_JOBS	Number of parallel workers used for the --parallel flag with the test subcommand. Defaults to number of available CPUs.
HTTP_PROXY	Proxy address for HTTP requests (module downloads, fetch)
HTTPS_PROXY	Proxy address for HTTPS requests (module downloads, fetch)
NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY	URL to use for the npm registry.
NO_COLOR	Set to disable color
NO_PROXY	Comma-separated list of hosts which do not use a proxy (module downloads, fetch)

You can also view the same content with deno --help.