op-js VS direnv

To get started with the 1Password CLI, visit the official 1Password CLI documentation. Here, you'll find installation guides, usage examples, and how to integrate it with various tools and workflows, including Git and SSH authentication.

1Password CLI: Automate administrative tasks, securely provision secrets across development environments, and use biometrics to authenticate in the terminal.

1Password CLI is great, having a single source for managing access keys and being able to use fingerprint ID on a Mac is such a cool feature. The AWS plugin works great, but if you want to use AWS through a third party (in this case Terraform), I failed to get it to work.

I know it's not FOSS but 1Password does have a decently fully-featured CLI client

https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/

I used to be anti hosted password managers, but I was recommended using 1password and their CLI client to manage my passwords.

When a customer emails me to request access, all I have to do is copy their username from the email they sent me, then I press ⌃-⌥-⌘-A, and it's done! This automation uses Keyboard Maestro, the GitHub API, and 1Password CLI.

The 1Password CLI. You can find the installation docs here.

VS Code extensions run in a Node environment, and we wanted to interact with the new CLI. So we built and open-sourced an entirely new package for doing exactly this: op-js. It wraps the CLI with a simple-to-use JavaScript interface and ships with TypeScript declarations, making 60+ commands, including those that support biometrics unlock, available to your Node-based application.

I think direnv already does a good job in this space, and it's already available in your package manager.

https://direnv.net/

I switched from asdf to mise after a comment on lobste.rs[1] suggested I do so a few months ago, and I have been very happy with it.

It sands off some of asdf's sharp UI edges and provides a somewhat larger but still reasonable feature set; I've also replaced most of my direnv[2] usage with it.

The mise -> asdf comparison page is useful[3]

1: https://lobste.rs/s/66uxbj/how_love_homebrew#c_mvmsjp

2: https://direnv.net/

3: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

I also made the export diff configurable, motivated by this post: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1233

Nice.

For years I've been using [direnv](https://direnv.net/) for this, setting environment variables which git picks up. This looks like a more feature complete equivalent, although to be honest I only really need switching of committer email and the SSH key used.

Direnv, for the uninitiated, loads and unloads environment variables when directories are entered and exited. Under every project folder there is a `$PROJ_DIR/.envrc` which contains:

buffer-env: A pure-Elisp version of the direnv utility. Useful to make Emacs aware of Python virtualenvs (which, judging by the questions posted here, is unfortunately still a complication for a lot of people). Similar to (and inspired by) envrc, but doesn't require the direnv program.

You can look at direnv to see this in action as they wrote shell hooks that get loaded into the shell profile and are executed on every prompt. https://direnv.net/

Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.