JAVASCRIPT

node dotenv

require('dotenv').config();

console.log(process.env.MY_ENV_VAR);

nodejs dotenv path how to set

// when yours .env is in other place then default, you can set path to it

const path = require('path')
require('dotenv').config({ path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../../.env') }); //use as many '../' as you need

node dotenv

const config = require('dotenv-config')();
 
console.log(config.test); // localhost
 
module.exports = config;

dotenv in node js

This is used to add a specific path to locate the .env file if we use like this 
.config() then this is finding .env file in our cwd - current working directory.


require('dotenv').config({ path: '/custom/path/to/.env' })

what is dotenv in nodejs

this module is used to access environment variable in our application