I hate environment variables. I hate them so so so much. I can’t think of a single time I would prefer an envvar to a config file.

They’re somewhat necessary when dealing with Docker. But I also hate Docker. So it’s not surprising when one bad design pattern leads to another.

I suppose maybe envvars make sense when dealing with secrets? I’m not sure. I don’t do any webdev. So not sure what’s least bad solution there.