Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
I’m struggling to make this work since this is my first time using Replit. I saw the note on the challenge that if we’re using Replit, we have to create the MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase .env variable on the SECRETS tab. I really don’t know what I should be deleting from the past challenges to make this work.

I think I’ve finally found the SECRETS tab. Is this how I’m supposed to set up and insert the variable into my code?

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Your code so far

let express = require('express');
let app = express();
console.log("Hello World")
const mySecret = process.env['MESSAGE_STYLE']


//app.get("/", function(req, res) {res.send("Hello Express");});
app.get("/", function(req, res) {

  res.sendFile(__dirname + "/views/index.html");
});
app.use("/public", express.static(__dirname + "/public"));

app.get("/json", (req, res) => {
  res.json({if (mySecret === "uppercase") {
  "message": "Hello json".toUpperCase();
} else {
  "message": "Hello json";
}
  });
});

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

Link to the challenge:

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Yes the screenshot you showed is the correct one.

You could have skipped the second screen and written your own code for referencing the environment variable.

Hope this helps

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It’s good to know that I could’ve skipped that second screen. I updated my code on this post. I’m still getting an error that I’m just throwing things at to fix. Do you know what my problem is?

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Thanks for the response. I don’t know if you saw the code that I just added. I thought I was referencing my variable in the right place, but obviously I’m not. Now the compiler doesn’t like the === comparison. What am I doing wrong here?
Screen Shot 2023-01-18 at 10.37.50 AM

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I finally got the code below to work. Thank you so much for your help.

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