Support for DATABASE_URL?

[msakrejda]

Hi,

Just started with pgtyped and really enjoying it so far. Would you consider a PR to add DATABASE_URL support as an alias for PGURI? Many tools already support this.

Thanks,
Maciek

[msakrejda]

Also, any chance pgtyped could support .env files? Right now it's hard to use dotenv for this with pgtyped, since pgtyped is its own CLI. Loading a .env file with a --envfile flag to specify a different one could be really useful.

[tbo]

@uhoh-itsmaciek You can handle the .env use case with a script entry inside your package.json:

    "pgtyped": "node -r dotenv/config ./node_modules/.bin/pgtyped -wc config.json",

[msakrejda]

@tbo oh that's great, thanks! I looked at using dotenv, but I missed you can use it like a wrapper like env.

I'd still love to have pgtyped fall back to DATABASE_URL if PGURI is not set. Happy to contribute a patch.

[adelsz]

@uhoh-itsmaciek A PR to use DATABASE_URL as an alias for PGURI would be welcome.