Call environment variables inside an ejs script

Question

I need to use a process variable inside my ejs template in order to call an endpoint, but from this context I cannot reach the process nodejs variable.

How can I achieve this?

<a class="imgLink" href="#" onclick="get_user_info()">
 <div style="border: 2px solid gray;padding: 8px">Info</div>
</a> 
<script>
 function get_user_info() {
 $.get(`/users/${process.env.userId}`, function(data) {
 // Do something
 })
 }
</script>

• Ale Gu: Just a remark for best practice, your Environment variables shoul have capitalized name, in your case: 'uSER-ID' .

Answer 1

<a class="imgLink" href="#" onclick="get_user_info()">
 <div style="border: 2px solid gray;padding: 8px">Info</div>
</a> 
<script>
 function get_user_info() {
 var userId= '<%= process.env.userId %>';
 $.get(`/users/${userId}`, function(data) {
 // Do something
 })
 }
</script>

get the userId using <%= process.env.userId%>

• Julian Torregrosa: It works but <%= process.env.userId %> should have quotes var userId= '<%= process.env.userId %>';
• Patrick Roberts: What about just $.get('/users/<%= process.env.userId %>', function (data) { ... })?