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Go .env Generator

Go apps typically use godotenv (joho/godotenv) or envconfig (kelseyhightower/envconfig) to load .env. This generator produces a Go-idiomatic .env with PORT, DATABASE_URL, JWT_SECRET, and CORS origins.

.env for Go · 6 keys

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APP_ENV=development
PORT=8080
DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/app?sslmode=disable
JWT_SECRET=FrhDnlB8Z1auP4d88KI5QX4KB6lDcEqpZcDwFoZZmYB1meNt
LOG_LEVEL=info
CORS_ORIGINS=http://localhost:3000

Secrets regenerate on every page load. Want to combine stacks (e.g., Next.js + Stripe + Supabase)? Use the full generator.

How to use this .env in Go

1.Save as .env in the project root.
2.Add godotenv: go get github.com/joho/godotenv.
3.Call godotenv.Load() at the very top of main(), before any other config reads.
4.Access via os.Getenv("KEY") or decode into a struct with envconfig.Process().

Gotchas

⚠Call godotenv.Load() before any package-level init() that reads env — init order bites here.
⚠In production, most Go hosts inject env via the kernel — don't ship .env to prod.
⚠sslmode=disable is fine for dev Postgres but a hard no in prod — switch to require or verify-full.