Runtime environment variables

NodeJS scripts access environment variables through the global variable process.env. To quote the NodeJS documentation:

The process core module of Node.js provides the env property which hosts all the environment variables that were set at the moment the process was started.

Tips

• Connection properties will be available on process.env without any further configuration or code from CodeNOW users.
• Use deployment configuration files to add your own runtime variables.
• The NodeJS developer community commonly uses the dotenv npm package to manage runtime environment variables.

Interesting links

• How to read environment variables from Node.js
• dotenv documentation