fix: load timing issues w/ environment vars

Author: NiloCK

packages/express/src/app.ts

@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
-import { createExpressApp, initializeServices } from './app-factory.js';
-import logger from './logger.js';
-import ENV from './utils/env.js';
 import dotenv from 'dotenv';
-import { initializeCouchDB } from './couchdb/index.js';
-import { initializeDataLayer } from '@vue-skuilder/db';
 
+// Load environment variables FIRST before importing any modules that depend on them
 dotenv.config({
   path:
     process.argv && process.argv.length == 3
       ? process.argv[2]
       : '.env.development',
 });
 
-// Now that dotenv is configured, we can validate the environment
+// Now import modules that depend on environment variables
+import { createExpressApp, initializeServices } from './app-factory.js';
+import logger from './logger.js';
+import ENV from './utils/env.js';
+import { initializeCouchDB } from './couchdb/index.js';
+import { initializeDataLayer } from '@vue-skuilder/db';
+
+// Validate that environment variables are loaded
 const requiredVars = ['COUCHDB_SERVER', 'COUCHDB_PROTOCOL', 'COUCHDB_ADMIN', 'COUCHDB_PASSWORD', 'VERSION', 'NODE_ENV'];
 const missingVars = requiredVars.filter(v => !process.env[v]);
 

packages/express/src/utils/env.ts

@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ function getVar(name: string): string {
   }
 }
 
+// Use getter to read environment variables lazily after dotenv has loaded
 const env: Env = {
-  COUCHDB_SERVER: getVar('COUCHDB_SERVER'),
-  COUCHDB_PROTOCOL: getVar('COUCHDB_PROTOCOL'),
-  COUCHDB_ADMIN: getVar('COUCHDB_ADMIN'),
-  COUCHDB_PASSWORD: getVar('COUCHDB_PASSWORD'),
-  VERSION: getVar('VERSION'),
-  NODE_ENV: getVar('NODE_ENV'),
+  get COUCHDB_SERVER() { return getVar('COUCHDB_SERVER'); },
+  get COUCHDB_PROTOCOL() { return getVar('COUCHDB_PROTOCOL'); },
+  get COUCHDB_ADMIN() { return getVar('COUCHDB_ADMIN'); },
+  get COUCHDB_PASSWORD() { return getVar('COUCHDB_PASSWORD'); },
+  get VERSION() { return getVar('VERSION'); },
+  get NODE_ENV() { return getVar('NODE_ENV'); },
 };
 
 export default env;