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environment variables undefined

See original GitHub issue

When I try to start the site (~p. 248), I’m met with the following error:

Unhandled rejection SequelizeConnectionError: password authentication failed for user "crash"

which caught me off guard because my .env file is:

DATABASE=gql
DATABASE_USER=postgres
DATABASE_PASSWORD=postgres

After going down the rabbit hole with Postgres and permissions and still not solving the issue I tried logging my environment variables only to find them undefined. (Really, that should have been the first place I checked).

I was able to fix the issue by updating /models/index.js and adding:

import 'dotenv/config';

I see it also exists in /src/index.js in the repo, but the book never specifies adding it anywhere. Updating the code for the index on p. 243 would save the reader a lot of troubleshooting.

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Created 5 years ago
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jakec-devcommented, Mar 5, 2019

Nevermind, I totally forgot that .env is ignored by git so I need to recreate it after pulling from my local repo. It’s all good, working now.

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krynvcommented, Sep 5, 2019

Had same issue, OP helped solve it.

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