Setting environment variables in Javascript

Question

I use Webstorm as javascript ide and i have set an environment variable via configuration;

var pass = process.env.pass;
//console.log(pass);

if (userName == 'admin' && password == pass) {
          //do something    
        }

If i run the script file it works fine without any problem and i can see the password in console, but when i run the index.html page, it does not load the page properly and when i delete var pass = process.env.pass; and use a hardcoded password, it loads the page without any problem.

I'm new to javascript and am i doing something wrong here?

Answer 1

process.env is Node.js construct. index.html is static webpage displayed in browser, hence there is no notion of environment variables.

How are you using javascript code? As a Node module or as browser script?