Remember to follow best practices, such as keeping your .env.go.local file out of version control and using a consistent naming convention for your environment variables.
To use the variables from .env.go.local in your Go application, you'll need a package to load the environment variables from the file. A popular choice is github.com/joho/godotenv . Here's a basic example of how to integrate it: .env.go.local
STRIPE_API_KEY=sk_test_12345 LOG_LEVEL=debug Remember to follow best practices, such as keeping your
files are often committed to version control to provide default values, files ending in are meant for your eyes only. Local Overrides Remember to follow best practices
// Access environment variables log.Println("Local environment variable:", os.Getenv("LOCAL_VAR"))