Environment variables in nodejs deployed app

Question

I am developing a Node application in which I am connecting to an azure database. I would like to keep the credentials as environment variables. I have a .env file and I have the credentials in that. When I run the app locally I can fetch the credentials from the file but when it is deployed in Azure, the process.env.SERVER is returning undefined and so I am unable to connect to the server.

Answer 1

In Azure Web Apps, we can define these environment variables in section Application settings -> App settings by using Azure portal :

Then these variables can be accessed from our Node.js code via process.env["variablename"] .