# Install dotenv-load with npm

Load environment variables from .env, .env.local, .env.production, etc. when running a npm or yarn command. Version 3.0.0 via npm; verified 2023-08-02.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:dotenv-load
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g dotenv-load
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:dotenv-load
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-load>
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Source summary:** Load environment variables from .env, .env.local, .env.production, etc. when running a npm or yarn command
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/formatlos/dotenv-load>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/formatlos/dotenv-load>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/formatlos/dotenv-load>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/dotenv-load/-/dotenv-load-3.0.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/formatlos/dotenv-load/issues>
- **Published:** 2023-08-02T12:52:23.680Z
- **Last updated:** 2023-08-02T12:52:23.680Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- dotenv-load (cli)
- dotenv-load (alias)

## Dependencies

- dotenv
- dotenv-expand
- shelljs

## Build dependencies

- prettier

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 3.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2023-08-02
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/formatlos/dotenv-load
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dotenv-load. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 3.0.0
- **Version Count:** 5
- **Maintainers:** formatlos
- **Author:** Martin Rädlinger
- **Publisher:** formatlos
- **Engines:** Node: >=6
- **Integrity:** sha512-lu8y60y3m/GVV8H/+wGd5SNAZxtaFCqFPVT1o+RvBlf4HIsySFMSIZtPfSAT9Ix2oK37kJW0l5lnQXgIqT9uxQ==
- **Shasum:** 8a5f4b87dff371029067bfa175bc0fc5f48e19ab
- **Unpacked Size:** 4,493
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2018-03-14T09:09:09.410Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2023-08-02T12:52:23.680Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-08-02T12:52:23.787Z


## Related links

- [Package publisher tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/package-publishers/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [dotenv-mono](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/dotenv-mono/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: dotenv, dotenv-expand, env, env-local, env-production.
- [dotenv-flow-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/dotenv-flow-cli/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: dotenv, dotenv-expand, env, expand, run.
- [dotenv-vault](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/dotenv-vault/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: dotenv, env, environment, variables.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph