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maryamaljanabi / bestbags-nodejs-ecommerce

A responsive ecommerce website using Node js, Express js, and MongoDB
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.env file is not seen by the other files #8

Closed elifoz closed 3 years ago

elifoz commented 3 years ago

Hi again! @maryamaljanabi I created a file named .env at the root but when I want to use .env variables I cant. The other files dont see the variables. Where am I doing mistake

maryamaljanabi commented 3 years ago

@elifoz Please post your error message.

elifoz commented 3 years ago

@maryamaljanabi for example when I write secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET in app.js the program accept secret undefined

maryamaljanabi commented 3 years ago

@elifoz are you sure you installed dotenv package? Because it works just fine for me.

maryamaljanabi commented 3 years ago

Closing because this is not an issue with the project.