How do I setup the dotenv file in Node.js?

Question

I am trying to use the dotenv NPM package and it is not working for me. I have a file config/config.js with the following content:

Answer 1

This is how i fix my issue

Intially had this in .env of the root of my project

const db_port = 90101
const db_host="localhost"
const db_username="name"
const db_password="pwd"
const db_name="db"

And all my env variables where undefined.

I fixed it by removing all the const and using just key=value insted of const key="value"

db_port = 90101
db_host=localhost
db_username=name
db_password=pws
db_name=db