Json request with .env code problem

JavaScript
#1

Tell us what’s happening:
Why this code does not work?


const mySecret = process.env['MESSAGE_STYLE']

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

Your project link(s)

solution: https://replit.com/@anilatasoyy/boilerplate-express-3

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Use the .env File

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#2

My problem is solved when I change mySecret to process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE but I think it is problematic since you insert it as mySecret in built in replit function

#3

It works because you move the check inside the get route. Not because of how you are accessing it.

Edit: Just to be clear, this would work as well:

app.get('/json', (req, res) => {
  const mySecret = process.env['MESSAGE_STYLE']
  if (mySecret === "uppercase") {
    res.json({
      message: "HELLO JSON"
    });
  }
  else {
    res.json({
      message: "Hello json"
    });
  }
});
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#4

thanks for the alternative though I still don’t understand why mySecret outside get request didn’t worked shouldn’t it be in a bigger scope while outside?

#5

I was having the same problems as well… Thank you for the solution. For me though, I only managed to pass it because I forgot the golden rule of refreshing the page and running it again. Or maybe it was because I was using Google Chrome (latest version)?

#6

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