The OpenID Connect Handbook

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Trying to follow the example code provided in the handbook, but encountering an error with the first example app already.

This code snippet:

const {OIDC_PROVIDER} = process.env;
const discEnd = ‘https://${OIDC_PROVIDER}/.well-known/openid-configuration’;
request(discEnd).then((res) => {
oidcProviderInfo = JSON.parse(res);
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log(‘Server running on http://localhost:3000’);
});
}).catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
console.error(‘Unable to get OIDC endpoints for ${OIDC_PROVIDER}’);
process.exit(1);
});

Throws an error that the OIDC_PROVIDER can’t be resolved"

Unable to get OIDC endpoints for ${OIDC_PROVIDER}

While the OIDC_PROVIDER is correctly read from the .env file, the value is not correctly propagated through the code, for example examining the discEnd constant yields this:

‘https://${OIDC_PROVIDER}/.well-known/openid-configuration’

instead of “https://‘actual value of OIDC_PROVIDER’/.well-known/openid-configuration” …

Any ideas?