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Spearfisher
Spearfisher

Reputation: 8763

How to detect my environment in Node.js?

I am trying to deploy my app online and therefore I need to use different files depending on the environment. However, I don't know how to detect which environment I am working in.

Basically I am just looking for a variable which enables me to say if I am in development or in production to specify my static routes. How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (1)

Zoey Mertes
Zoey Mertes

Reputation: 3144

Well this isn't a complete answer, but process.env is the Node.js portal to the environment variables used to start the app.
So, if you had your environment set via the NODE_ENV variable (which is a pseudo-standard for Node), you could do the following:

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "production") {
  doProductionThings();
} else {
  doDevelopmentThings();
}

Upvotes: 4

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