Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Tell us what’s happening:

Code is correct, tests are not passing. It is working as expected. Used the same syntax. Red the value from the .env inside the route handler. dotenv package is installed. I tried everything. Also tried npm run update --all.

myApp.js file:

require('dotenv').config();
let express = require('express');
let app = express();


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

app.get('/json', (_, res) => {
 let message = process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE === 'uppercase' ? "HELLO JSON" : "hello json";
 res.send({ message: message })
});

app.get('/', (_, res) => {
 res.status(200).sendFile(__dirname + "/views/index.html")
})

module.exports = app;

Link for the result ( might not work at all times as I might restart the pod now and then ):

To be mentioned that the link above is the one where you can see the JSON payload response.
I have submitted the root link ( without the /json path ) :

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solution: boilerplate-express - Replit

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

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The response object should either be {"message": "Hello json"} or {"message": "HELLO JSON"} , depending on the MESSAGE_STYLE value.

Your code

let message = process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE === 'uppercase' ? "HELLO JSON" : "hello json";

The casing should match.

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