NestJS · Junior · Question 14 of 75

What is a typical way to load environment configuration in Nest?

✓Correct answer: ConfigModule.forRoot() from @nestjs/config, then inject ConfigService where needed
2Hard-code values in main.ts
3Read .env manually in every controller

Explanation

forRoot loads .env and can validate variables with a schema. isGlobal: true makes ConfigService available everywhere.

Further reading

NestJS: Configuration ↗

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