Can't read my environment variable in my Node.js app

Question

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and I\'m just learning about environment variables. I am trying to read a custom variable from within my application but it always shows up as undefin

Answer 1

I found my way here from something really silly.

I had just added the new exported variables, but my node process still wasn't seeing them. Then I realized it wasn't enough to restart the node process—I had to open a new terminal (ie. bash instance) too. Once I did this, it worked fine :)