Setting Environment Variables for Node to retrieve

Question

I\'m trying to follow a tutorial and it says:

There are a few ways to load credentials.

1. Loaded from environment variables,

Answer 1

Like ctrlplusb said, I recommend you to use the package dotenv, but another way to do this is creating a js file and requiring it on the first line of your app server.

env.js:

process.env.VAR1="Some value"
process.env.VAR2="Another Value"

app.js:

require('env')
console.log(process.env.VAR1) // Some value