Dot Veil 🙈

Dot Veil (formerly Veil) is a VS Code extension that automatically hides sensitive values in your configuration files to prevent shoulder surfing or accidental screen sharing leaks.

Features

• Automatic Masking: Sensitive values are replaced with ******* in the editor.
• Secure: The actual file content is never modified, only the visual representation.
• Toggleable: Quickly toggle masking on/off globally or per-file.

Supported Files

Dot Veil works out of the box with:

• .env* (e.g., .env, .env.local, .env.production)
• .npmrc, .pypirc
• secrets.yaml, secrets.yml, .secrets
• credentials.json

Supported Patterns

Dot Veil automatically identifies and masks values for keys matching these patterns (case-insensitive where applicable):

• *_KEY, *_SECRET, *_TOKEN, *_PASSWORD
• API_KEY, AUTH_SECRET
• DATABASE_URL, REDIS_URL
• password, secret, token

Commands

• Dot Veil: Toggle Masking: Enable or disable masking globally.

File-Level Configuration

You can disable Dot Veil for a specific file by adding a comment anywhere in the file:

# dot-veil: off

To re-enable it, simply remove the comment.

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• pnpm (v8+)

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ragnarok22/vscode-veil-dotenv.git
   cd vscode-veil-dotenv
   

2. Install dependencies:

   pnpm install
   

Running the Extension

1. Open the project in VS Code:

   code .
   

2. Press F5 to start the Extension Development Host.

Running Tests

pnpm test

Building the VSIX Package

To build the extension package (.vsix) for distribution:

npx @vscode/vsce package --no-dependencies

Note: The --no-dependencies flag is required because we bundle dependencies using esbuild.