Environment Variables Defined by the Node Buildpack

Page last updated: December 24, 2015

When you use the Node buildpack, you get three Node-specific environment variables in addition to the regular Cloud Foundry environment variables.

• BUILD_DIR — The directory into which Node.js is copied each time a Node.js application is run.

• CACHE_DIR — The directory that Node.js uses for caching.

• PATH — The system path used by Node.js:

  PATH=/home/vcap/app/bin:/home/vcap/app/node_modules/.bin:/bin:/usr/bin