How Can We Help?

Environment Variables(Node.js)

Environment Variables(Node.js):
NodeJS:

Variable	Value Example	Description
APP_FILE	server.js	The main application file to be launched
AUTO_OLD_HEAP	TRUE	Turns on/off BitssCloud memory autoconfiguration (sets the maximum size of an old heap based on the amount of memory on the container)
HOME_DIR	/home/BitssCloud	Container home directory (informational)
NODE_ENV	development	Specifies the environment in which an application is running (e.g. development, staging, production, testing, etc)
NODE_OPTIONS	–trace-warnings	Variable for specifying the V8 runtime options
NVM_DIR	informational	The path where NVM is installed
PACKAGE_MANAGER	npm	A variable which contains the name of the utility used for installing the javascript packages
PACKAGE_MANAGER_OPTS		Additional options for the package manager (refer to the official npmor yarn documentation)
PROCESS_MANAGER	npm	Variable for choosing the Node.js process manager (i.e. npm, pm2, forever, supervisor)
PROCESS_MANAGER_FILE		Path to the file which contains the start options for the process manager
ROOT_DIR	/home/BitssCloud/ROOT	Sets a path to the directory for application deployment
STACK_NAME	nodejs	Name of the stack (informational)
STACK_SHORT_VERSION	6	The major version of the current template (informational)
UPDATE_PACKAGES_ON_RESTART	true	Enables/disables automatic packages installation after the nodejs service restart. If there is no node_modulesdirectory inside the webroot one, such an update is called regardless of the variable

Table of Contents

×