env-test

Test of setting runtime app environment in different deployments

Run the app locally, without setting the environment

This option requires node running locally

node server.js
# or
npm start

Run the app locally, passing command line environment settings

This option requires node running locally

set PORT=4200 && node server.js
# or
npm run start:set

Run the app locally, pre-loading environment settings from a .env file

This option requires node running locally

1. Make a copy of .example.env file and name it .env. Replace the values with your specific configuration. Note that this file is already listed in .gitignore so it won't get pushed to github. Do not to include extra spaces or quotes. These values are taken verbatum.

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=8626

2. start the app

node -r dotenv/config server.js
# or
npm run start:dotenv

Run the app locally, inside of Docker container

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Run the app on Azure

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Run the app inside of Docker container hosted in Azure

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Reference material

• https://github.com/johnpapa/vikings
• https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/making-your-node-js-work-everywhere-with-environment-variables-2da8cdf6e786
• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/heres-how-you-can-actually-use-node-environment-variables-8fdf98f53a0a