JWT_SECRET Not In Env

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Hi,

Hoping someone can help.

My backend fails to work when registering a new user, I have the error: "JsonWebTokenError: jwt malformed" the issue appears to be that the JWT_SECRET env is not available in the userController.js file. I'm wondering a couple of things here.

1. Why no package.json for the backend project?
2. Why is dotenv not imported/required in the userController.js

It's a little weird that others haven't had the same issue, so I guess I must be missing something?

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After adding dotenv and making JWT_SCRET available in the userController.js file:

const dotenv = require('dotenv')

dotenv.config({
  path: "../"
})

I still have the error: "JsonWebTokenError: jwt malformed". Any advice appreciated.