Support env variable through .env file

Author: kunalkapadia

.gitignore

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ pids
 # Babel ES6 compiles files
 dist
 
+# env variable file
+.env
+
 # Directory for instrumented libs generated by jscoverage/JSCover
 lib-cov
 

config/env.js

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import path from 'path';
+
+// load env variables defined in .env
+const config = require('dotenv').config() || {};
+
+// root path of server
+config.rootPath = path.join(__dirname, '../');
+
+console.log('loaded env');
+export default config;

index.js

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-const app = require('./config/express'),
-	debug = require('debug')('express-es6-rest-api-starter:index');
+import config from './config/env';
+import app from './config/express';
 
-app.listen(3000, () => {
-	debug(`server started on port ${process.env.HTTP_PORT} in ${process.env.NODE_ENV} env`);
+const debug = require('debug')('express-es6-rest-api-starter:index');
+
+// listen on port HTTP_PORT
+app.listen(config.HTTP_PORT, () => {
+	debug(`started server on port ${config.HTTP_PORT} (${config.NODE_ENV})`);
 });

package.json

@@ -1,31 +1,37 @@
 {
-  "name": "express-es6-rest-api-starter",
-  "version": "0.0.0",
-  "private": true,
-  "scripts": {
-    "start": "node ./bin/www"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "body-parser": "~1.13.2",
-    "compression": "^1.6.1",
-    "cookie-parser": "~1.3.5",
-    "cors": "^2.7.1",
-    "debug": "^2.2.0",
-    "express": "~4.13.1",
-    "http-status": "^0.2.0",
-    "jade": "~1.11.0",
-    "method-override": "^2.3.5",
-    "morgan": "~1.6.1",
-    "serve-favicon": "~2.3.0"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "babel": "^5.8.23",
-    "del": "^2.2.0",
-    "gulp-babel": "^5.2.1",
-    "gulp-load-plugins": "^1.2.0",
-    "gulp-newer": "^1.1.0",
-    "gulp-nodemon": "^2.0.6",
-    "gulp-plumber": "^1.0.1",
-    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0"
-  }
+	"name": "express-es6-rest-api-starter",
+	"version": "0.1.0",
+	"description": "Starter project for an ES6 RESTful Express API",
+	"main": "index.js",
+	"private": false,
+	"scripts": {
+		"start": "gulp babel && node dist/index.js",
+		"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+	},
+	"repository": {
+		"type": "git",
+		"url": "[email protected]:KunalKapadia/express-es6-rest-api-starter.git"
+	},
+	"author": "Kunal Kapadia <[email protected]>",
+	"dependencies": {
+		"body-parser": "~1.13.2",
+		"compression": "^1.6.1",
+		"cors": "^2.7.1",
+		"debug": "^2.2.0",
+		"dotenv": "^2.0.0",
+		"express": "~4.13.1",
+		"http-status": "^0.2.0",
+		"method-override": "^2.3.5",
+		"morgan": "~1.6.1"
+	},
+	"devDependencies": {
+		"babel": "^5.8.23",
+		"del": "^2.2.0",
+		"gulp-babel": "^5.2.1",
+		"gulp-load-plugins": "^1.2.0",
+		"gulp-newer": "^1.1.0",
+		"gulp-nodemon": "^2.0.6",
+		"gulp-plumber": "^1.0.1",
+		"gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0"
+	}
 }