Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Project is giving me the uppercase as I needed but cannot pass the test. It keeps saying that cannot find the environment variable.
I wrote
const mySecret = process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE
and
const mySecret = process.env[‘MESSAGE_STYLE’]
inside the route handler, but there’s no difference.

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solution: https://replit.com/@josemicorrea/boilerplate-express-1json

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

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We need to see your code to help, but your link does not work.

3

Here is the fixed link. boilerplate-express (1) - Replit

    if (process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE === 'uppercase') {
     var u_=JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(messageObject ));
     u_.message=u_.message.toUpperCase();
     return res.json(u_);
  } else {
      return res.json(messageObject);
  }

I don’t know what you are doing here, but I liked this better:

  // if(mySecret === "uppercase") {
  //     res.json({"message": "Hello json".toUpperCase()});
  // } else {
  //     res.json({"message": "Hello json"});
  // }
4

Thank’s for the quick response.
I made another fix based on your anwer but test keeps failing.

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5

What link are you submitting?

You can do some debugging yourself to watch what happens when the tests run:

app.get('/json', function(req, res) {  
  const mySecret = process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE;

  if (mySecret === "uppercase") {
    console.log("responding 'HELLO JSON'");
    res.json({"message": "Hello json".toUpperCase()});
  } else {
    console.log("responding 'Hello json'");
    res.json({"message": "Hello json"});
  }
})
6

I sent this link:
https://boilerplate-express-1.josemicorrea.repl.co/json
and it works like a charm.

7

This is the result:
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8

This means that you are never providing the lowercase result?

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The lowercase is in the second if condition, the else, so it never reach it, because the first condition is true: there’s an uppercase text into the environment variable.
I test it in a Gitpod account and it works fine. I think is a replit issue because of the way it handles the environment variables through that Tool/Secrets feature.

10

So you should check if you set up the secret per the instructions

11

When I submit your project url, it passes all the tests.

Make sure you are submitting the base url of the project (it should not include /json).

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Dear God, you’re right. I sent it without the “/json” and now the tests are all good.
Thanks a lot, both of you.