using an enviroment variable for local sequelize configuration

Question

I\'m looking to use an environment variable inside of the config.json file of my project using sequelize. I\'m using dotenv to set environment variables locally. My config.json

Answer 1

I worked on this for quite a bit. I do not know why Sequelize does not use production when it is literally in the environment if you run heroku run bash. I was able to get it working by modifying the Sequelize object depending on the JAWSDB_URL, not the NODE_ENV.

require("dotenv").config();
const express = require("express")
const app = express();
let seq;

//express app configuration

if (process.env.JAWSDB_URL) {
    console.log("There is a JAWS DB URL")
    seq = new Sequelize(process.env.JAWSDB_URL)
}
else {
    seq = require("./models").sequelize
}
seq.sync().then(() => {
  app.listen(PORT, () => console.log('server started on port ' + PORT));
})