config VS env

Compare config vs env and see what are their differences.

config

JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods. (by olebedev)

env

A simple and zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs (by caarlos0)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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config

Posts with mentions or reviews of config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning config yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

env

Posts with mentions or reviews of env. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing config and env you can also consider the following projects:

viper - Go configuration with fangs

ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go

koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.

kelseyhightower/envconfig - Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables

envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables

toml - Instream TOML to JSON encoder

hjson - Hjson for Go

cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

go-aws-ssm - Go package that interfaces with AWS System Manager