Stuck on this annoyingly simple problem for months 😡

[slashgod]

Tell us what’s happening:

I am stuck on this stupid problem for months now. It’s trivially simple, but I am unable to pass it. I don’t know if this is a bug in my code, or a bug with FCC.

The challenge: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/apis-and-microservices/basic-node-and-express/use-the--env-file

My code: https://glitch.com/~eastern-earthy-rake

As you can see at https://glitch.com/~eastern-earthy-rake/json, my code does post HELLO JSON in uppercase.

I get the error: The response of the endpoint /json should change according to the environment variable MESSAGE_STYLE

What am I doing wrong here?

Your code so far

let message = {“message”: “Hello Json”}

/** 6) Use the .env file to configure the app */

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

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use the .env File

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[anon10002461]

Try this one:

app.get(’/json’, (req, res)=> {
if (process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE === ‘uppercase’) {
res.json ({“message”: “HELLO JSON”})
}
res.json (message)
})

[slashgod]

@anon10002461

app.get(’/json’, (req, res)=> {
if (process.env.MESSAGE_STYLE === ‘uppercase’) {
res.json ({“message”: “HELLO JSON”})
}
res.json (message)
})

Nope, it doesn’t work. I get the same error.

[slashgod]

I had posted about my problems with this challenge in June. I’m still stuck on this challenge.

NPM Challenge: Use the .env File is flawed

Tell us what’s happening: I’m getting an error in this challenge even though my solution is correct. [image] What I get when i change the value of MESSAGE_STYLE: [image] [image] Your code so far My code is here: https://eastern-earthy-rake.glitch.me Your browser information: User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36. Challenge: Use the .env File Link to the challenge:

[anon10002461]

Try now:

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

(damn i hate the formatting shortcuts here XD)

But just to be clear, your code looks fine (although Im no expert) it’s a matter of giving the algorithm what he wants.

If it does not pass, would you let me know whats your .env file like?

[slashgod]

Screenshot of my .env file:

[anon10002461]

I don’t know exactly whats that, but I would create a simple .env file in your directory, just next to the app.js

[slashgod]

The test did not pass

[anon10002461]

Can you link me to the repl? if that’s possible, so I can see your files

[slashgod]

Sure: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/join/ae3646b9-6d8d-418f-a6fa-96d0cf0d17c8

[anon10002461]

That’s not what I mean. But the page where you’re actually writing the code (or maybe there are more ways to use glitch than I knew of).

[anon10002461]

Something like this https://repl.it/@misterybodon/boilerplate-express

also, check out how I approach the problem and see if we’re doing similar

[slashgod]

I tried to submit your solution, and I get the same error. Does this happen to you?

[lasjorg]

You need to update the fCC dependency in your project. Remove the fcc-express-bground-pkg.git package and then add it back again.

Delete this line from package.json

"fcc-express-bground": "https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/fcc-express-bground-pkg.git"

Wait for it to uninstall, then add it back (put back the line you remove) and let it install. Now submit the project.

[anon10002461]

Thats not the link for the solution, only for the repl.

This is the link:

https://boilerplate-express.misterybodon.repl.co

yes as @lasjorg says thats also part of the problem as can be checked using

> npm outdate 
//output
Package              Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
fcc-express-bground    0.0.5     git     git  fcc-learn-node-with-express

(but they should tell this in the exercise description)

I believe npm update should do, though. Or maybe not?

[slashgod]

That worked! Thank you.

[slashgod]

Thanks for the assist. You cannot imagine how frustrating it has been to deal with this challenge. I gave up on the whole track, worked on a different certification, came back after a few months again to this…

[anon10002461]

You’re welcome and am quite sad about that, checked out your profile and saw the question many times therein. Feel free to ask me in a message any other time. Though I wasn’t that helpful.

Good luck!

[lasjorg]

@slashgod Good to hear, sorry for the inconvenience. Happy coding.

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Just as an FYI. This issue will affect anyone that has started the project before the package was updated. The update to the package was made to deal with a recent issue with Glitch. I only knew this was the issue because I recognized the console error and I made the PR with the fix.

[mohamedmehdigara]

@anon10002461

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

Thanks. It worked. I was stuck too.