.env challenge couldn't be passed

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Tell us what’s happening:
I have implemented the code and it works fine on the Repl.it but when I paste the link for testing it says that
// running tests The response of the endpoint

/json

should change according to the environment variable

MESSAGE_STYLE

// tests completed
my actual output : {“message”:“HELLO JSON”}

also i have created the .env file and have written this inside:
MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase
Your code so far

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


app.get('/',hello);
app.get('/json',json_res);
var response="Hello json";
if(process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE==='uppercase'){
  response="Hello json".toUpperCase();
}
else{
  response="Hello json";
}
json_obj = {"message": response};
function json_res(req,res){
  res.json(json_obj);
  
}

function hello(req,res){
  res.send("Server is running");
}

 module.exports = app;

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use the .env File

Link to the challenge:

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Welcome, aerojex.

Remember, any code outside of a route will only be run once - upon first script initialisation.

This means your logic will never change on changing inputs.

Click for more details:

You need to move your if...else statement logic to be run within the /json route. Otherwise, the value of json_obj will always remain the same.

Hope this clarifies.

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I have put the if … else statement inside the json_res function like this

function json_res(req,res){
if(process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE===‘uppercase’){
response=“Hello json”.toUpperCase();
}
else{
response=“Hello json”;
}
json_obj = {“message”: response};
res.json(json_obj);

}

it works fine on the Repl.it server

have a look its active now: https://boilerplate-express.arijitroy3.repl.co/json

but in the challenge window it is not accepting.

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YES THE SOLUTION GOT ACCEPTED
clicked the I’ve completed challenge button several times then got accepted.
Might be some server or network issues.
Thankyou @Sky020 for the help

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