twilio error 'username required'

Question

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e";
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);
router.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
router.use(bodyParser.json());

router.post('/', function(req, res) {
    console.log('this is the req', req.body);
    client.messages.creat({
        to:'+19522209630',
        from:'+17633249718',
        body:'hello World'
    }, function(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            console.log('err', err);
            console.log('data', data);
        }
    });//en d of sendMessage
    res.send(200);
});

module.exports = router;

/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/rest/Twilio.js:101
    throw new Error('username is required');
    ^

Error: username is required
    at new Twilio (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/rest/Twilio.js:101:11)
    at initializer (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/node_modules/twilio/lib/index.js:8:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/routes/sendMessage.js:6:31)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/Documents/prime/solo_project/server.js:10:19)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node server.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/moisesmiguelhernandez/.npm/_logs/2017-07-11T15_02_02_750Z-debug.log

I am getting and error that says username is required. I am trying to use twilio. I followed a youtube video and i have it like he does. Any suggestions on how to fix this? P.S The index file is the terminal error message

Answer 1

Save these into a .env file at your root of your folder

TWILIO_TOKEN = "270ff32fe16828869dc30e0c6926fa9e"
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID = "AC55a59221acb23a5aa6f046740bb73317"

Then install npm install dotenv --save

After that you can use these environment variables in your file like this:

require('dotenv');
var client = require('twilio')(process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, process.env.TWILIO_TOKEN);```

Answer 2

I had this same issue as well. What fixed it for me is doing

• npm install dotenv
• require('dotenv').config()

then I added my

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=***

TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=***

full code:

require('dotenv').config();

const accountSid = process.env.ACCOUNT_SID;
const authToken = process.env.AUTH_TOKEN;
const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);

client.calls
  .create({
    url: 'http://demo.twilio.com/docs/voice.xml',
    to: process.env.CELL_PHONE,
    from: process.env.TWIL_NUM,
  })
  .then(call => console.log(call.sid))
  .catch(err => console.log(err));