Hello! I have a question that has little to do with Prisma, but since y’all are cool, I’ll ask it anyways 😛 In WebStorm, before running Jest, I’m trying to load my

.env

file before. Any idea what the node options I could provide would be, to load dotenv before running Jest?

you might also consider running dotenv from within your tests: https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv

Actually I tried that, it simply doesn’t work! I’m using

import * as dotenv from 'dotenv'

then running

dotenv.load()

I think it's great to share experience and thoughts about such topics here! 🙂 Feel free to create a topic in the Forum as well, if you find no satisfying answer here.

i dont know - i just googled it. source .env is the bash way of importing vars into env vars

pretty sure you could run dotenv via the node options

That’s actually the first thing I tried, but it unfortunately did not work

@picosam I used

"test": "dotenv -e config/test.env jest",

in my package.json scripts section

Thanks @max, actually

”dotenv jest”

simply works. But I also found a way around the WebStorm issue. As I said, I’ll try and put this together on a repository next week.

When in doubt, I hack

require('dotenv').config()

and it all works 🙂 I use that a lot with QuokkaJS (big recommendation if you haven't taken a look at it -- it's a scratch file runtime that can also run real files)

@lawjolla I’m working on it. The reason

require('dotenv').config()

wasn’t working at first was simply because the current working directory was incorrectly set by WebStorm

that looks awesome, thanks for sharing @picosam 😊