Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

This is my code in myApp.js and I don’t know what’s wrong

let express = require(“express”);
let app = express();

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

app.get(“/”, (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(__dirname + “/views/index.html”);
});

app.get(“/json”, (req, res) => {
if (process.env[“MESSAGE_STYLE”] == “uppercase”) {
res.json({ message: “HELLO JSON” });
} else {
res.json({ message: “Hello json” });
}
});

module.exports = app;

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solution: Glitch :･ﾟ✧

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Challenge Information:

Basic Node and Express - Use the .env File

code:

2

What do you need to require to use process.env?

3

I am doing this in glitch, otherwise I would require (‘dotenv’).config()

4

Have you tried requiring that in your code? I don’t use Glitch but it looks like Glitch just doesn’t display the node_modules folder in your editor.

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5

Thanks, that was the case!