Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

JavaScript
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Need assistance , followed the instructions, however I keep receiving the message "env File " " Failed:The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE

let express = require('express');
let app = express();
console.log("Hello World");



app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  const absolutePath = __dirname + '/views/index.html';
  res.sendFile(absolutePath);
});

app.use("/public", express.static(__dirname + "/public")); 


app.get("/json", (req, res) => {
  if ( process.env["MESSAGE_STYLE"] == "uppercase"){
    res.json({"message": "HELLO JSON"})
  } else {
       res.json({"message": "Hello json"})
  }

})
  




module.exports = app;




{
"MESSAGE_STYLE": "uppercase"
}




solution: https://replit.com/@javieraju/boilerplate-express-193

![package.json - boilerplate-express (1_93 (2) - Replit - Google Chrome 1_12_2023 12_11_05 AM|690x273](upload://jrCQgbXOB9hgmvfOfkwJTxPFCFo.png)


User Agent is: <code>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36</code>

**Challenge:**  Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

**Link to the challenge:**
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/basic-node-and-express/use-the--env-file
![package.json - boilerplate-express (1_93 (2) - Replit - Google Chrome 1_12_2023 12_11_05 AM|690x273](upload://jrCQgbXOB9hgmvfOfkwJTxPFCFo.png)
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@camperextraordinaire Thanks for reaching out so quick, i really appreciate your help

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