envlint

Language-agnostic .env validation. One schema, any stack.

Validate your .env files in CI before your app even starts. Works with any language.

Why envlint?

Existing solutions like pydantic-settings (Python) or envalid (JavaScript) only work within their own language. You need to run your app to validate your config.

envlint is different:

• Language-agnostic: Define your schema once, validate from any CI pipeline
• Catches issues at build time: Before your app crashes in production
• No code changes: Just a YAML schema and a CLI command
• No SDK or runtime dependency: Your app doesn't need to know envlint exists

# Your app crashes in production because...
KeyError: 'DATABASE_URL'

# Or silently uses wrong values...
API_URL=htpp://api.example.com  # typo in scheme
PORT=not_a_number               # string where int expected

envlint catches these in CI, not production.

Installation

pip install envlint

Quick Start

1. Create a schema file (.env.schema):

DATABASE_URL:
  type: url
  required: true

API_KEY:
  type: string
  required: true
  pattern: "^sk_[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}$"

PORT:
  type: port
  required: false
  default: "3000"

DEBUG:
  type: bool
  required: false

2. Run envlint:

envlint check

3. See results:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ envlint                                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ✓ All 4 variables validated successfully       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Or if there are errors:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Errors                                          │
├──────────────┬────────────────────┬─────────────┤
│ Variable     │ Error              │ Value       │
├──────────────┼────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ DATABASE_URL │ required variable  │ -           │
│              │ is missing         │             │
│ API_KEY      │ must match pattern │ invalid_key │
│ PORT         │ must be a port     │ abc         │
│              │ number (0-65535)   │             │
└──────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────────┘

Exit code is 1 on errors, 0 on success. Perfect for CI/CD.

Schema Format

Supported Types

Full Schema Options

MY_VARIABLE:
  type: string          # Type (see above)
  required: true        # Is this variable required?
  default: "value"      # Default value if missing
  pattern: "^[A-Z]+$"   # Regex pattern to match
  description: "..."    # Documentation
  choices:              # Allowed values
    - option1
    - option2
  min: 0                # Minimum (for numeric types)
  max: 100              # Maximum (for numeric types)

Shorthand Syntax

For simple variables, use shorthand:

# These are equivalent:
API_KEY: string
API_KEY:
  type: string
  required: true

# Just the name = required string
SECRET:

CLI Usage

# Basic validation
envlint check

# Specify files
envlint check --env .env.production --schema env.schema.yml

# Include system environment variables
envlint check --system

# Strict mode (fail on undefined variables)
envlint check --strict

# Verbose output (show warnings)
envlint check --verbose

# Quiet mode (only output on error)
envlint check --quiet

# Generate schema from existing .env
envlint init --from-env .env

# Create template schema
envlint init

CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions

- name: Validate environment
  run: |
    pip install envlint
    envlint check --env .env.example --schema .env.schema

Pre-commit Hook

# .pre-commit-config.yaml
repos:
  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: envlint
        name: envlint
        entry: envlint check
        language: system
        pass_filenames: false

Docker Build

FROM python:3.11
RUN pip install envlint
COPY .env.schema .
COPY .env .
RUN envlint check
# ... rest of build

License

GPL v3

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.