Env variables are not working in my local setup in Mac (npm)

Questions
1

I tried everything to setup environment variables such as ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc and vim but none of it worked in N8N. When I attempt to execute the commands “env” or “echo $WORKFLOWS_DEFAULT_NAME” in the Terminal, the variable I had previously set is displayed.
I also attempted installing PM2 but it’s not running properly anymore.

2

You could take n8n out of it and just see if your npm/typescript environment will recognize the env vars the way you are setting them.

testenv.ts

console.log(`env ${process.env.ABC}`)

Commands

  • Check without env var set
    • npx ts-node -O '{"module": "commonjs"}' ./testenv.ts
    • Output: env undefined
  • Check with env var set
    • export ABC=envvarvalueset
    • npx ts-node -O '{"module": "commonjs"}' ./testenv.ts
    • Output: env envvarvalueset