how can i suppress "NODE_ENV value of 'test' did not match any deployment config file names." warnings?

[nrser]

i have mocha tests being run in a spawned process with NODE_ENV=test and i'm getting these warnings in the output:

WARNING: NODE_ENV value of 'test' did not match any deployment config file names.
WARNING: See https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config/wiki/Strict-Mode

i checked out #309 and read the source... it doesn't seem like there is any way turn them off?

[markstos]

The answer is on the linked web page, under the section about the specific warning you got.

[nrser]

you mean creating a file for it to find? i understand that would stop the warning. i wanted to know if there was a way to simply suppress it's display. if there's not, ok, there's not. it's a library though so not sure i'll always have control of the end user config.

[markstos]

No, there's not a second method. Just create the file.

[morphatic]

I found another workaround. In my package.json file where I set up my test script, I changed it to the following:

{
  ...
  "scripts": {
    "test": "NODE_ENV= jest",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

This prevents jest (or mocha in your case) from setting the NODE_ENV variable to "test" which in turn means that the config package won't look for the config/test.json file. Take special note that there is a space between NODE_ENV= and jest in that script. Alternatively you could set NODE_ENV to something else, but the config package would look for a JSON file with that name in the config/ directory and you'd be back to the place you started.

[capan]

I know this is not the best practice but I've wrapped the warning logs in config.js with an if to get rid of the warning messages;

 if (prefix !== 'WARNING: ') {
      console.error(prefix + msg);
      console.error(prefix + seeURL);
    }