Common ENV for several apps in a JSON declaration

[miriti]

It would be great to have a possibility to declare ENV variables in the json file and make them common for several apps. Currentelly I'm doing it like this:

{
  "apps": [
    {
       "name": "api",
       "env": {
         "API_HOST": "api.service.com",
         "API_PORT": 80
       }
    },
    {
       "name": "service",
       "env": {
          "API_HOST": "api.service.com",
          "API_PORT": 80
        }
    }
  ]
}

It would be great to be able to do something like:

{
  "apps": [
    {
       "name": "api"
    },
    {
       "name": "service"
    }
  ],
 "env": {
   "API_HOST": "api.service.com",
   "API_PORT": 80
 }
}

In both apps API_HOST and API_PORT variables will be available.

Or maybe there is a way to do this with json declaration? I couldn't find anything...

[zacbarton]

This would be really handy!

[xpepermint]

The right place for env variables is the package.json file. Check this https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/config. We are waiting for #702 to be resolved.

[miriti]

It's been a while. Anything on that?
I'm not sure that package.json is a right place because sometimes you want to have several app declaration files but you can have only one package.json.