Cant find process.env.SOME_VARIABLE in the file .env in a REACT/NODE application

Question

My codebase has been referring to env variables using ' process.env.SOME_VARIABLE '. In both react and node projects there is a.env file but I can't see most of the variables in the file which are being used in the project config file in this format ' process.env.SOME_VARIABLE '

I tried process.env in node console, but I get metadata of the local environment like system setup, versions, etc. but I can't find SOME_VARIABLE , or any other project-related variables in that list.

Can you please help me figure out where could this SOME_VARIABLE be defined and what is defined?

Answer 1

You need to parse your env variables from .env file using dotenv in nodejs environment then SOME_VARIABLE will available in process.env.SOME_VARIABLE

Answer 2

the above answer is right.

• install the npm i dotenv package.

• import it

require("dotenv").config();

then

process.env.SOME_VARIABLE

hope this works.