.env variable cannot access

[feral urchin]

I cannot access any variable in the .env file

[green cave]

Show .env then

[ancient steppe]

your env file is not in the backend folder where you're running it from

[supple grail]

it wasn't on the first run, but it appears to be now (both from the file structure on the left and seeing that they didn't get a file load error the second time around)

i agree that seeing the file will be important 🙂

[rustic lantern]

I think the problem is the location of his binary if he's using build and if he's run need to change the path to the .env file

../../internal/.env try this I think

[supple grail]

no, it is not under the internal directory

it is under the backend directory

the spacing can make it a little hard to tell, but vs code only collapses to internal/server if server is the only thing within internal

(and the location of the binary is irrelevant to the working directory, which is where the file is loaded relative to)

[cerulean ridge]

why are so many people using .env /godotenv ? is that all copy pasted from some tutorial somewhere?

[green cave]

No thats first result in google

[cerulean ridge]

I mean using dotenv ... env vars should be set outside not inside a process

[rustic lantern]

Didn't understand well what you're trying to say but the godotenv.load(path) depends on the location from where the program is executed

At least that's what I know

[supple grail]

yes, correct

that is not the binary location

see the directory in the screenshot

the file is being loaded correctly, that is not the issue

[rapid shale]

super convenient, it works just as fine for setting the variables from outside like in a docker container, but for development you just set up the .env file & it works perfectly fine without any further configuration needed & so on.

[cerulean ridge]

yeah I suppose though sometimes because something is convenient isn't sufficient justification

[rustic lantern]

The first not. The second yes I think maybe the problem is the PORT in the .env file maybe the name is not correct