dotenvdiff (ded) allows you to quickly compare the environment variable differences between two .env (or .env.example) files.
Requirements:
- PHP 7.3 or greater
Require the tool globally via Composer:
composer global require cwhite92/dotenvdiff
If you don't have Composer's bin directory in your $PATH, now is the time to add it to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc:
export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
Simply run the ded command and give it the locations of the two .env files that you wish to compare:
ded /path/to/first/.env /path/to/second/.env
If you're running this in a Laravel project, you probably want to run it like this in your project's root directory:
ded .env.example .env
It will give an output similar to the below:
╔═════════════════════╤══════╗
║ .env.example │ .env ║
╟─────────────────────┼──────╢
║ GITHUB_API_ENDPOINT │ ║
╚═════════════════════╧══════╝
In this instance, there is a new GITHUB_API_ENDPOINT environment variable that exists in .env.example but not in .env. Somebody on our team added it and forgot to tell us 🙂
cwhite92/dotenvdiff is licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see the license file for more information.