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 A Go (golang) port of the Ruby dotenv project (which loads env vars from a .env file)
 
+From the original Library:
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+> Storing configuration in the environment is one of the tenets of a twelve-factor app. Anything that is likely to change between deployment environments–such as resource handles for databases or credentials for external services–should be extracted from the code into environment variables.
+> 
+> But it is not always practical to set environment variables on development machines or continuous integration servers where multiple projects are run. Dotenv load variables from a .env file into ENV when the environment is bootstrapped.
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 ## Installation
 
 ```shell