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jamlet
jamlet

Reputation: 302

I can't see environment variable on Express App

Variables are setted in .bashrc. I can see them on terminal $echo MY_VAR. Also I can see them on Node.js shell process.env.MY_VAR. But I can't see it in my Express App. file.js console.log("My var: "+process.env.MY_VAR); shows: 'My var'

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 863

Answers (1)

sarveshseri
sarveshseri

Reputation: 13985

.bashrc is executed when you start a terminal session which is a child of current user session.

So... the user sessions outside the terminal have no idea about anything in .bashrc.

Now... your node console runs inside the user session of current terminal.

So... if you run a js script outside a terminal session, it runs in with a new copy of user's session.

So... you will need to create your variables in .bash_profile which is executed on user login... and everything there is effective for whole user session.

Upvotes: 1

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