Environment variables containing newlines in Node?

Question

I\'m attempting to load an RSA private key into my nodejs application using environment variables, but the newlines seem to be being auto-escaped.

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Answer 1

If you're using dotenv: We solved it this way, with newlines and JSON.parse (this allows any backslash escaped chars within the string, not just \n):

in .env:

MY_KEY='-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\nabcde...'

in server.ts:

myKey = JSON.parse(`"${process.env.MY_KEY}"`), // convert special chars

See thread: https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/issues/218