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nodejs .env variable showing undefined

I use dotenv to separate my bot tokens from the app itself. However, when I run the code it shows the env variables as undefined and as a result throws an error: Error: An invalid token was provided.

Here is the code requiring dotenv

require('dotenv').config()
const Discord = require("discord.js");
const client = new Discord.Client();
const {Client, Attachment, RichEmbed} = require("discord.js");

Here's the code calling the variable and the console.log where I attempted debug

console.log(process.env.BOT_TOKEN); // Display token test
client.login(process.env.BOT_TOKEN); // Login Token

Finally here is the config.env file itself

DEV_TOKEN="Not trying to leak the token"
BOT_TOKEN="Not trying to leak the token"

I'm not sure why it doesn't work.

Solution

  • You should create .env file, not config.env