envconfig VS viper

Compare envconfig vs viper and see what are their differences.

envconfig

Small library to read your configuration from environment variables (by vrischmann)

viper

Go configuration with fangs (by spf13)
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envconfig viper
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237 25,756
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0.0 8.8
over 2 years ago 7 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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envconfig

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

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

viper

Posts with mentions or reviews of viper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing envconfig and viper you can also consider the following projects:

env - A simple and zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs

godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

config - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods.

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

go-options - :package: Clean APIs for your Go Applications

cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

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

store - A dead simple configuration manager for Go applications

mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go

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