Intellisense for env keys in your Javascript

A Visual Studio Code extension that provides auto-completions from contents found in your .env files within your Workspace.

Features

• Gives you auto-completion for env keys defined in your workspaces
• Shows environment variable values and source files on hover
• Validates environment variable usage and warns about undefined variables
• Detects duplicate environment variable definitions
• Automatically masks sensitive values (configurable)
• Command to manually re-cache env keys definitions if needed

Supported Languages

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• JavaScript React (.jsx)
• JavaScript React (.tsx)
• Vue

Usage

This extension activates when .env files are found in your workspace. It automatically:

• Scans for .env files in your workspace
• Provides IntelliSense suggestions for process.env.*
• Shows hover information for environment variables
• Validates environment variable usage

You can also execute the command "Dotenv: Cache Again" via Ctrl+Shift+P to refresh the cache.

Configuration

The extension can be customized through VS Code settings:

• dotenv-intellisense.debug: Enable additional logging (default: false)
• dotenv-intellisense.maskValues: Mask sensitive environment variable values in hover tooltips (default: true)
• dotenv-intellisense.sensitivePatterns: Patterns to identify sensitive variables that should be masked (default: ["key", "password", "token", "secret"])
• dotenv-intellisense.maxFiles: Maximum number of .env files to scan (default: 10)
• dotenv-intellisense.filePatterns: Glob patterns to identify .env files (default: ["/.env", "/.env.*"])
• dotenv-intellisense.excludedDirs: Directories to exclude from scanning (default: ["/node_modules/"])

Features

Auto-Completion

Provides intelligent suggestions for environment variables when typing process.env.

Hover Information

Hover over any process.env.* variable to see:

• Current value (masked for sensitive data)
• Source .env file
• Variable type

Validation

• Warns about undefined environment variables
• Highlights duplicate variable definitions
• Shows source files for duplicates

Future Plans

• Provide user settings to override .env files to be cached
• Add support for more programming languages
• Implement additional validation rules

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.