I am having trouble accessing environment variable that I have set permanently in windows using setx. I have set a path to the download folder that I would access in my test code.
C:\Users\XXXX>echo %DOWNLOADS%
C:/Users/XXXX/Downloads/
In my test code -
import { Selector, fixture } from 'testcafe';
fixture`Auto Test`
.page`http://XXXXXX/index.html`.beforeEach(async (browser) => {
let directory;
if (browser.browser.os.name === 'Windows') {
directory = env.DOWNLOADS;
I see following error -
TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of type string or an instance of Buffer or URL. Received undefined
What am I missing here?
you can acess the environment variable like
process.env.DEV_MODE
DEV_MODE is my environment variable
sample code
if (process.env.DEV_MODE) {
baseUrl = 'http://localhost:5000';
} else {
baseUrl = config.API.BaseUrl;
}