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The process Module

Explore the Node.js process module to understand how it provides access to command line arguments and environment variables. This lesson helps you interact with the runtime environment effectively and configure applications based on different environments by leveraging process.argv and process.env.

Overview

The process object provides information about the current Node.js process and allows the program to interact with it.

The process is a global object, so it can be accessed anywhere inside our Node.js applications without using require().

Now, we’ll look at a few common process properties, such as .argv and .env.

Access CLI arguments

The process.argv property allows us to access the values passed into the ...