I am running [email protected]
and I am attempting to get settings from the environment variables using .\config\custom-environment-variables.json
does not work. However, it reads from the .\config\default.json
just fine.
.\config\custom-environment-variables.json
{
"key": "app_key"
}
.\config\default.json
{
"key": "defaultKey"
}
running
const config = require('config');
console.log(config.get('key'))
always prints
defaultKey
but prints nothing when I set the key
property in config/default to an empty string. How can I resolve this?
The config file name relates to the NODE_ENV environment variable you use when starting node.
The purpose of the module is to have a config file for each type of environment you are deploying to test, staging, prod environments. Default takes over if nothing is set or a file can't be find
e.g. for test and staging environments you would have.
config/default.json
{
"key": "default_key"
}
config/test.json
{
"key": "test_key"
}
config/production.json
{
"key": "prod_key"
}
app.js
var config = require('config')
console.log(config.key)
Then if you run with a different NODE_ENV the same name as the file in the config directory you get the different keys
node app.js // output default_key
NODE_ENV=test node app.js // output test_key
NODE_ENV=production node app.js // output prod_key
You question references custom environment variables using the file config/custom-environment-variables.json
This file will enable you to override a value in one of the files with a environment variable set when running node. This is useful when you can't commit the variable, such as database key but might want to access all your config in the same place.
e.g.
{
"key": "SECURE_DATABASE_KEY"
}
Then running the same program again with the new config file:
NODE_ENV=production node app.js // output prod_key
SECURE_DATABASE_KEY=asldfj40 NODE_ENV=production node app.js // output asldfj40
I ran into a similar problem and found that if I don't open a new terminal window and I restart the server in the same window where I run export some_secret=immasecret
, then the app doesn't crash and the some_secret
variable can be accessed. I'd previously been trying to access the variable while running node in another window.
This issue is with VSCODE Editors Integrated Terminal
We have also struggled a lot with this issue initially, but the issue is that you might be using the integrated terminal that comes with VSCODE there is an issue with that, please try to use some external terminals like cmder or cmd prompt that comes with windows you will get the output as you are expecting.
USE EXTERNAL TERMINAL OR CMD PROMPT to execute the code
A solution is custom-env nodejs module, it allows you to add different environment variables for different stages using the popular .env
method. Example .env
for dev
environment and .env.staging
for staging
environment
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