Application configuration can be a pain. Modern web apps don't live on dedicated boxes, they run on VPSes somewhere in the amorphous "cloud", and keeping configuration out of your application's repository can seem like more trouble than it's worth. Fortunately, The Twelve-Factor App provides a set of standards for keeping web apps sane, and one of those guidelines advises keeping configuration in the environment.

Envy is the declarative bridge between Racket code and the outside world of the environment.

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