My environment variable comes up undefined

Question

I'm not sure why my environment variable comes up undefined. This is the first time I am using environment variables and can not seem to figure out what the issue is,

My environment file is something like this:

# ANSIBLE MANAGED FILE, YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
PORT=3001
NODE_ENV=development

# PostgreSQL
MY_DATABASE_CLIENT: 'pg'
MY_DATABASE_HOST: '127.0.0.1'

and my model contains these two lines:

require('dotenv').config({path: '/opt/eosapi/.env'});

console.log("ENV VARIABLE CHECK...",process.env.MY_DATABASE_CLIENT);

however whenever I run this file, I get:

ENV VARIABLE CHECK... undefined

Could anyone point out the issue to me?

Answer 1

Try removing the absolute path

require('dotenv').config();

And then debug using

const result = require('dotenv').config()

if (result.error) {
  throw result.error
}

console.log(result.parsed)

Use proper assingment

# ANSIBLE MANAGED FILE, YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
PORT=3001
NODE_ENV=development

# PostgreSQL
MY_DATABASE_CLIENT='pg'       # <--------- must be =
MY_DATABASE_HOST='127.0.0.1'  # <--------- must be =