.env.development.local Direct

.env.development.local is a widely adopted convention for environment files. The .env prefix indicates that the file contains environment variables, while .development specifies the environment type, and .local denotes that the file is intended for local development only. This file contains key-value pairs of configuration settings, which are loaded into the application's environment variables.

".env.development.local: A Best Practice for Environment-Specific Configuration in Software Development" .env.development.local

DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=5432 DB_USERNAME=myuser DB_PASSWORD=mypassword API_KEY= myapikey Example of a dotenv configuration file: while .development specifies the environment type