Prisma

I’m having issues were my environment variables are returning undefined. Do I need to run an specific command to set them?

```
const dotenv = require('dotenv');
dotenv.load()
```

All good, im trying to run it from cli without any luck

how are you reading the env vars in your code and how are you setting them in the CLI

`process.env.PRISMA_SECRET` 

in my scripts I have :
`"start": "dotenv -- nodemon -e ts,graphql -x ts-node src/index.ts"`
`"dev": "npm-run-all --parallel start playground"`
so I run in my cli `yarn run dev`

NODE_ENV=“dev”
PRISMA_STAGE=“dev”
PRISMA_ENDPOINT=“<http://localhost:4466/>”
PRISMA_CLUSTER=“local”
PRISMA_SECRET=“mysecret12345”
APP_SECRET=“jwtsecret12345"

and when you run `console.log(process.env.PRISMA_SECRET)`, it prints `undefined`?

`"prisma-deploy": "prisma deploy --env-file /config/.env.dev"`

oh. So you don't have an `.env` file, but your file is in `./config/.env.dev`?

in your `package.json`, replace `dotenv` with `dotenv -e ./config/.env.dev`

for `prisma deploy`, an env var file in a subdirectory is currently not supported: <https://github.com/prismagraphql/prisma/issues/1701>

Generally, all dotenv tooling uses `.env` as a default file, if you have a different file name you need to specify it.

This is a great lesson thanks :slightly_smiling_face: