Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Tell us what’s happening:

I’m using Gitpod to do basic node and express learning, I got stuck at the “use .env file” challenge. It will take another .env file and not the new one i created. Or at least it seems that way when logging on console the process.env, it shows many variables that do not exist in mine, and it considers MESSAGE_STYLE=“uppercase” undefined, I tried MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase too, and logging const mySecret = process.env[“MESSAGE_STYLE”]. Nothing is working.

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solution: https://3000-freecodecam-boilerplate-8jixz95ppt9.ws-eu114.gitpod.io

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Challenge Information:

Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Hello, the link to your solution is showing an enternal service error 404.

This 3000-freecodecam-boilerplate-8jixz95ppt9.ws-eu114.gitpod.io page can’t be found

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are you using dotenv? can you share your code and also the env file?

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Dotenv is included in the gitpod project

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you need to config it in the file like instructed

can you share your code and your .env file?

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This is actually the solution.
I got caught up in this challenge for over 2hrs now. And by just configuring it, it passed.

It simply means that if you’re using Gitpod u need to config it as instructed before it could pass. The instruction seems to relate only to when working locally ( on your code editor), however, it applies to Gitpod

Commenting on this because i didn’t have to ask question inorder to get my answer. It should also help others.