// package.json
"scripts": "dev": "node scripts/validate-dev-env.js && NODE_ENV=development nodemon src/index.js" .env.development
# .env.development VITE_BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:8080 VITE_APP_TITLE="My App (Local Dev)" While Python doesn't have a built-in .env parser, the python-decouple or django-environ libraries allow you to mimic the pattern. You manually load files based on DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE . // package
The .env.development file is a used exclusively when your application runs in a development environment. .env.development