leapfrog-env 1.0.0

🐸 Leap between development environments with ease

Leapfrog

A CLI tool for switching between environment configurations. Stop manually editing .env files.

The Problem

You know the drill: you're switching between dev, staging, and production. Every time you need to manually update your .env file with different database URLs, API keys, and port numbers. You forget to change one value and waste 20 minutes debugging why your local app is hitting the production database.

I got tired of this, so I built Leapfrog.

Installation

pip install leapfrog-env

Requires Python 3.7+. Works on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Usage

Save your current .env as an environment:

leapfrog hatch production --from-current

Create a few more:

leapfrog hatch staging --from-current
leapfrog hatch development --from-current

Switch between them:

leapfrog leap development
leapfrog leap production

See what you have:

leapfrog pond

That's it. Your .env file gets updated, and Leapfrog keeps a backup of what was there before.

Commands

• hatch <name> - Save current .env as a named environment

  • --from-current - Use your current .env file
  • --force - Overwrite if it already exists
  • --description "..." - Add a description

• leap <name> - Switch to a saved environment

• pond - List all your saved environments

• croak - Validate your current .env file

• prune <name> - Delete an environment you don't need anymore

How it works

Leapfrog stores your environment configurations locally (in ~/Library/Application Support/leapfrog/ on Mac, similar locations on other platforms). When you switch environments, it backs up your current .env and writes the new one.

Everything stays on your machine. No cloud sync, no accounts, no tracking.

Why I built this

At my company we have like 8 different environments: dev, dev1, dev2, dev3, qa, qa1, qa2, staging. Each one has different database credentials, different MongoDB connection strings, different API endpoints. New developers would constantly forget to update everything and spend hours debugging.

I got tired of seeing the same mistakes over and over, so I built this. Now it takes one command to switch between any environment.

Tech stack compatibility

Works with anything that uses .env files:

• Node.js / Express / Next.js / React
• Python / Django / Flask
• Ruby / Rails
• Go
• PHP / Laravel
• Java / Spring Boot
• Whatever else you're using

A few nice things

• Automatically backs up your current .env before switching
• Validates environment files and tells you if something's wrong
• Groups variables by type (database, API, security, etc.) for readability
• Hides sensitive values in output
• Suggests similar names if you typo an environment name
• Shows you which environments you've used recently

Contributing

Found a bug? Have a feature idea? Open an issue or PR. I'm pretty responsive.

License

MIT - do whatever you want with it.

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Built by someone who got tired of manually editing environment files.