Package
env-var
Verification, sanitization, and type coercion for environment variables in Node.js
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 618.2k
- +144% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 2 years ago
- v7.5.0
- GitHub stars
- 625
- 37 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 6 / 2
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
618,189 downloads last week, 3,554,160 in the last month. The 12-month change of +144% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 047 in total
- Latest version
- 7.5.0, 20 May 20242 years ago
- First published
- 15 Apr 2016
- Last push to GitHub
- 1 Sept 202623 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 6
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 0
- Dependents on npm
- 459
Major versions
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 11 Nov 2020
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 12 Feb 2020
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 14 Jun 2019
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 9 Apr 2019
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 14 Oct 2017
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 31 Jul 2016
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 15 Apr 2016
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 7.5.0 | 20 May 2024 |
| 7.4.2 | 9 May 2024 |
| 7.4.1 | 28 Aug 2023 |
| 7.4.0 | 21 Aug 2023 |
| 7.3.1 | 24 Apr 2023 |
| 7.3.0 | 6 Sept 2022 |
| 7.2.0 | 31 Aug 2022 |
| 7.1.1 | 29 Oct 2021 |
| 7.1.0 | 28 Oct 2021 |
| 7.0.1 | 16 May 2021 |
| 7.0.0 | 11 Nov 2020 |
| 6.3.0 | 27 Jul 2020 |
| 6.2.0 | 12 Jun 2020 |
| 6.1.1 | 24 Apr 2020 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=10
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 42 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install env-var- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/env-var@7.5.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/env-var@7.5.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/env-var@7.5.0
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| envfile | 83.7k | - | 2 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| config-dug | 7.8k | - | 2 months ago | CommonJS | - |
| zod-config | 7.7k | - | 10 months ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| @proload/core | 20k | - | 4 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| auto-config-loader | 82.2k | - | 6 months ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| typed-env | 11.4k | - | 1 year ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| dotenv | 130.9m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | dotenv vs env-var |
Indexability: Indexed.