.env files are one of the most sensitive things you can paste into a
web tool — database passwords, API keys, tokens, all in plain text.
That’s exactly why our new
.env to JSON Converter runs
entirely in your browser, in both directions, with nothing ever sent
to a server.
- Two directions, one tool — convert
.envto JSON, or a flat JSON object back to.envformat, with a single toggle. - Correct quote and escape handling — double-quoted values get
\n,\", and\\unescaped per standard dotenv convention; single-quoted and unquoted values are left completely literal. - Values stay honest strings —
DEBUG=truebecomes the JSON string"true", not a boolean, andPORT=8080stays the string"8080", not a number. This tool never silently guesses your types. - Clear rejection of what it can’t represent — a nested object or
array in your JSON gets a specific error naming the key, since
.envhas no way to represent structure and silently flattening it would invent a convention you didn’t ask for. - Comments and blank lines handled properly — skipped on the way to JSON, exactly like a real dotenv loader would.
- Private by construction — parsing and generation both run as plain JavaScript string processing in your browser; nothing you type or paste is ever transmitted, saved, or logged.
Whether you’re turning a .env into JSON for a config loader, or
flattening an app’s JSON config into a .env a deployment platform
expects, it happens instantly and stays on your machine.