unable to use environment variables in strapi

Question

I am trying to connect a MongoDB URI to the strapi backend. I am able to connect with the main URL but when I created a .env.development variable, I am not able to connect to the database.

 {
  "defaultConnection": "default",
  "connections": {
    "default": {
      "connector": "mongoose",
      "settings": {
        "uri": "${process.env.DATABASE_URI || ''}"
      },
      "options": {
        "ssl": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Answer 1

Ok, new plan.

try that :

npm install --save dotenv

require('dotenv').config()

{
  "defaultConnection": "default",
  "connections": {
    "default": {
      "connector": "mongoose",
      "settings": {
        "uri": `${process.env.DATABASE_URI || ''}`
  },
  "options": {
    "ssl": true
  }
}

} }