What is the reason of env folder?

[alimoli]

Feature Request

I am trying to understand what is the purpose of having an /env folder that emulates the configuration already present in Strapi. Example of config/database.ts:

postgres: {
      connection: {
        connectionString: env('DATABASE_URL'),
        host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
        port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 5432),
        database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
        user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
        password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
        ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
          key: env('DATABASE_SSL_KEY', undefined),
          cert: env('DATABASE_SSL_CERT', undefined),
          ca: env('DATABASE_SSL_CA', undefined),
          capath: env('DATABASE_SSL_CAPATH', undefined),
          cipher: env('DATABASE_SSL_CIPHER', undefined),
          rejectUnauthorized: env.bool(
            'DATABASE_SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED',
            true
          ),
        },
        schema: env('DATABASE_SCHEMA', 'public'),
      },
      pool: { min: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MIN', 2), max: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MAX', 10) },
    },

My env/database.ts:

export default ({env}) => ({
  connection: {
    client: 'postgres',
    connection: {
      host: env('DATABASE_HOST', undefined),
      port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', undefined),
      database: env('DATABASE_NAME', undefined),
      user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', undefined),
      password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', undefined),
      ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
        rejectUnauthorized: false
      }
    }
  }
});

Another related question, how does it behave this plugin in case of plugins (f.e. cloudinary)?

[Eventyret]

It's using the cold configuration of strapi and should be updated soon as I'm writing V2. The idea with the old one was to overwrite the .env More info found here https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/configurations/environment/#environment-configurations