Unset NODE_DEBUG variable

Question

I set NODE_DEBUG environment variable to request:

export NODE_DEBUG=request

Now I want to unset it.

export NODE_DEBUG=""

I tried the command above, but the Node processes still output request debug messages.

Did I do something wrong? How can I prevent messages like below?

REQUEST:  { host: 'api......com',
  port: ...,
  path: '/...',
  method: 'get',
  headers: 
   {...}
STATUS: 200
HEADERS: {...}

Answer 1

My case was that I was using another library that was having debug: true flag. Probably, it was setting NODE_DEBUG="request" on runtime.

var apiClient = new Foo({
   debug: true
});

By removing debug: true or setting it to false, the issue was solved.

Answer 2

try unset NODE_DEBUG

This will do just what it sounds like: "unset" this environment variable.

(credit goes to @vinayr's comment for this answer, but I'm putting it here for easier discovery)