Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I have looked at numerous other examples on the forum and I don’t see why mine is not working. It displays the lowercase message, so is it something wrong with how I am trying to read the value of process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE?
https://gitpod.io#snapshot/5f1cdfe6-7517-4337-9afa-c12a3d04a386

Your code so far

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

console.log('Hello World');

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

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

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

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Challenge Information:

Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

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Finally figured it out… make sure your .env file doesn’t get put inside of another folder :woman_facepalming: