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Working with Express - Nodemon and Dotenv

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 45 minutes
Students: 25
Rating: 3/5
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Description

In this lab, you learn how to setup and install Nodemon and Dotenv NPM Packages. Nodemon is for application development monitoring that will restart your server when code changes are made. Dotenv is for loading environment variables into your Express application. Nodemon and Dotenv are valuable tools to help ease the development of an Express application. For this lab, you will be asked to work with the terminal along with making application configuration changes to setup an Express development environment. For this new series of Express labs, you will be instructed to work inside a specific file or set of files. If this is your first time working on the new Express lab, make sure to watch the Introduction to Cloud Academy Coding Labs.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this beginner, you will be able to:

  • Install the Nodemon NPM Package
  • Create a dev script to execute Nodemon
  • Install the Dotenv NPM Package
  • Import Dotenv
  • Access the environment variable through the use of the process.env object

Intended Audience

  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

The following content can be used to complete this lab:

Covered topics

Development
Javascript
Node JS
Express JS

Lab steps

Installing Nodemon
Writing the Dev Script
Installing Dotenv
Creating and Implementing the Env File
Requiring Dotenv
Using the Environment Variable
Running the Server

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