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![Ulises Gascón on X: "🎉 Yeah, #nodejs 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files. 👉 Support for the NODE_OPTIONS environmental variable 👉 Custom paths 👉 Comments supported in .env files https://t.co/mQmyPNdo5k" / Ulises Gascón on X: "🎉 Yeah, #nodejs 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files. 👉 Support for the NODE_OPTIONS environmental variable 👉 Custom paths 👉 Comments supported in .env files https://t.co/mQmyPNdo5k" /](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3v8EYwXMBAWtEH.png)
Ulises Gascón on X: "🎉 Yeah, #nodejs 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files. 👉 Support for the NODE_OPTIONS environmental variable 👉 Custom paths 👉 Comments supported in .env files https://t.co/mQmyPNdo5k" /
![Eduardo.𝚟𝚞𝚎 on X: "So apparently you can use `.env` files without any library in Node 20 since September 👀 https://t.co/TDpOKP8bFk Run node with `--env-file=.env` and voila https://t.co/wOk5REkfyZ" / X Eduardo.𝚟𝚞𝚎 on X: "So apparently you can use `.env` files without any library in Node 20 since September 👀 https://t.co/TDpOKP8bFk Run node with `--env-file=.env` and voila https://t.co/wOk5REkfyZ" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-9jMcrXkAAiZjE.jpg)