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

You might want to consider using a library for managing app configuration.

For example nconf helps manage configuration through

• command line argumets
• environment variables
• files
• etc..

And looking at the source is a nice way to learn https://github.com/flatiron/nconf