Hide Env for Visual Studio Code

Quickly and automatically hide sensitive information in your files. Perfect for screen sharing, live coding, and protecting your secrets.

Hide Env is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to prevent accidental exposure of sensitive data, such as API keys, environment variables, and other secrets. It works by visually obscuring the values in your files that match predefined patterns, replacing them with ******.

This is especially useful during screen sharing sessions, video recordings, or live-coding presentations, ensuring your confidential information remains private.

Demo

Demo GIF of Hide Env in action

Features

Automatic Hiding: Automatically hides sensitive values in files that match your rules.
.gitignore-Style Rules: Uses a .hide file in your project root that follows familiar .gitignore syntax.
Flexible Separators: Works with both = and: as key-value separators, making it compatible with .env files, JSON, YAML, and more.
Real-time Updates: The extension reacts instantly to changes in your .hide file. Add or remove a rule, and see the effect immediately without reloading.
Simple and Lightweight: No complex configuration. Just create a .hide file and you're ready to go.

How to Use

Install: Install the Hide Env extension from the VS Code Marketplace.
Create a .hide file: In the root directory of your project, create a file named .hide.

Define Your Rules: Add file patterns to the .hide file, just like you would with a .gitignore file.

Example .hide file:

# Hide the root .env file
.env

# Hide any file named secrets.json
secrets.json

# Hide all files ending with .prod.env in any subdirectory
**/*.prod.env

See the Magic: Open a file that matches one of your rules (e.g., .env) containing API_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_VALUE. The extension will automatically hide the value: API_KEY=******.

To temporarily see the real value, you can comment out the corresponding rule in your .hide file (by adding a # at the beginning of the line) and save the file. The value will reappear instantly.

Extension Settings

This extension does not add any VS Code settings. Configuration is managed entirely through the .hide file.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Hide Env