Can i store Objects in process.env

I'm storing an object (which has several methods) into `process.env` as below:

var obj = createObject(); // returns new object
process.env.OBJ = obj;

When I access this object from other places like below, I don't see any of the methods.

var obj = process.env.OBJ;

Showing `[Object Object]`.

Why is that?

process.env is to store your environmental variables not really to store your objects. You can store your variables like that:

process.env['CONSUMER_KEY'] = ""
process.env['CONSUMER_SECRET'] = ""
process.env['ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY'] = ""
process.env['ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET'] = ""

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If you want to store your methods you should create a global object and assign your methods to that one.

Short answer is: **NO**

No, you can't store objects in `process.env` because it stores environment variables like `PATH, SHELL, TMPDIR` and others, which are represented by String values. If you run command `console.log(process.env);` you can see all env variables of your system, in particular you can set your own env variables (e.g. `process.env.home = 'home'`) which will be available during the process you run your nodejs application.

**Solution exists!**
Stringify JSON object and save as env variable. Then parse and use it when you need your object

Altho you can't store objects in `process.env` directly, you can still store in `process` itself.

Try to stringify the object and pass into the process.env and parse the string to get the object this will work.
Eg.

var obj = createObject(); // returns new object

process.env.OBJ = JSON.stringify(obj);

Use this in code like `let objFromEnv= JSON.parse(process.env.OBJ);`