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# Tell direnv To Load The Env File
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By default [`direnv`](https://direnv.net/) looks for and evaluates the `.envrc`
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file that appears in a given project directory. This default behavior is good
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for things like setting certain path dependencies (e.g. a specific version of
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node or postgres).
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To the end of using `direnv` to set up the development environment, it can be
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useful to have it also load the `.env` file into the current shell's
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environment.
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To get `direnv` to do that, add this line to the `.envrc` file:
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```
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dotenv_if_exists .env
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```
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This specific loads all the environment variables in `.env`. If there are other
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files, such as `.env.development` that need to be loaded in, those can be
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included with additional
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[`dotenv_if_exists`](https://direnv.net/man/direnv-stdlib.1.html#codedotenvifexists-ltdotenvpathgtcode)
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declarations.
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