Stuck on .env file lesson using repl.it but can't see what's wrong

JavaScript
#1

Hi,

I am doing the Basic Node and Express course and I am stuck on the “use the .env file” lesson.

I keep getting this error message:
// running tests The response of the endpoint

/json

should change according to the environment variable

MESSAGE_STYLE

// tests completed

The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE

And yet when i go to the json endpoint I get “HELLO JSON” in all caps, and if I change the variable name to something wrong it reverts back to lower case so i don’t know what I am doing wrong.

Here is my code for this exercise:

\\\
let express = require('express');
let app = express();
console.log("Hello World");

/*
app.get("/",
       function(req, res) {
         res.send('Hello Express');
       })
*/

if (process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE==="uppercase") {
  response ="Hello json".toUpperCase();
} else {
  response ="Hello json";
}

app.get("/json",
       function(req,res) {
         res.json({"message":response});
       })

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

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

And my environment variable is stored by replit as
Key: MESSAGE_STYLE
Value: uppercase

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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solution: boilerplate-express-1 - Replit

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#2

This logic needs to be inside the request handler. The tests work by changing the environment variable while your app is running.

#3

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