Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Tell us what’s happening:

why am I getting error?

Failed:The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE

Challenge Information:

Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

my code in myApp.js is as follows:

let express = require('express');
let app = express();

console.log("Hello World")

//Serve an Html file
app.get("/", function(req, res) {
  res.sendFile(__dirname + "/views/index.html");
})

//serve static assests
abspath = __dirname +"/public"
app.use("/public", express.static(abspath))


//serve json
app.get("/json", function(req,res){
    if(process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE=="uppercase"){ 
        res.json({message: "Hello json".toUpperCase()});
    }
 else
    { res.json({message: "Hello json"});  
 
})


 module.exports = app;

why am I getting error?

Failed:The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE

project link

https://freecodecam-boilerplate-xre7fa46ukp.ws-us108.gitpod.io

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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what’s in your .env file?

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this is .env file:

MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase

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I had to use

require('dotenv').config()

and it worked. Thank you

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