Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

[rubenjen]

Tell us what’s happening:

So I am having a problem passing the above mentioned challenge.

When I submit my solution, fcc says // running tests The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE // tests completed

I am running this on my local machine (you can probably see that from the localhost link) and it works as the endpointhttp://localhost:3000/json displays:

{
  "message": "HELLO JSON"
}

It relatively easy, so am not sure why it isn’t passing.

my code is

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

let app = express();

let homeAbsolutePath = __dirname + "/views/index.html";
let stylesAbsolutePath = __dirname + '/public';

app.use('/public', express.static(stylesAbsolutePath));

app.get('/json', (req, res) => {
	let msg = "hello json";
	const secretWord = process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE;
	if(secretWord === "uppercase"){
		res.json({ "message": msg.toUpperCase() });
	}else{
		res.json({ "message": msg });
	}
});

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
	res.sendFile(homeAbsolutePath);
});

I have checked similar questions but most are unsolved or require submitting the correct replit link, so they don’t work for me.

NB: I am running this on locally as replit kept spinning and logging nothing since challenge one.
Your project link(s)

solution: http://localhost:3000

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[nhcarrigan]

@rubenjen

let msg = "hello json";

Double check your casing:

The response object should either be {"message": "Hello json"} or {"message": "HELLO JSON"} ,

[rubenjen]

You are a lifesaver @nhcarrigan…can’t believe I had even had to some watch node tutorial and check the documentation trying to solve this. Haha…thanks alot.