← back to blog Mot June 24, 2024 From dotenv to dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management The day after July 4th 🇺🇸, I wrote dotenv’s first commit and released version 0.0.1 on npm. It looked like this. In the 11 years since, it’s become one of the most depended-upon packages worldwide 🌎 – adjacent ubiquitous software like TypeScript and ESLint. It’s an example of “big things have small beginn