process.env undefined in Node app

Question

When running my Node app with node server.js , process.env returns undefined , so I'm unable to access any environment variables. This also seems to occur when I attempt to deploy my app to Duostack .

Calling process.env from the command line seems to work, though:

$ node
> process.env
{ MANPATH: '/opt/local/share/man:',
  TERM_PROGRAM: 'Apple_Terminal',
...

Any idea what could be going wrong?

Answer 1

I figured it out. process is an object ( https://nodejs.org/api/process.html ), but I'd defined my own function (also called process ) that overwrote it. Changing the name of my function fixed the problem.