section22.5.md

Section 22.5: Using dierent Properties/Configuration for different environments like dev, qa, staging etc

Large scale applications often need different properties when running on different environments. we can achieve this by passing arguments to NodeJs application and using same argument in node process to load specific environment property file. Suppose we have two property files for different environment.

• dev.json

{
  "PORT": 3000,
  "DB": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "user": "bob",
    "password": "12345"
  }
}

• qa.json

{
  "PORT": 3001,
  "DB": {
    "host": "where_db_is_hosted",
    "user": "bob",
    "password": "54321"
  }
}

Following code in application will export respective property file which we want to use.

process.argv.forEach(function (val) {
  let arg = val.split("=");
  if (arg.length > 0) {
    if (arg[0] === 'env') {
      let env = require('./' + arg[1] + '.json');
      exports.prop = env;
    }
  }
});

We give arguments to the application like following

• node app.js env=dev

If we are using process manager like forever than it as simple as forever start app.js env=dev