Like Warner has said, take a database. Something like redis, in this case. Or even a free hosted offering, if it is not mission critical. Or get a firebase client. In any case, some external persistent way of storing and retreiving this.
As an aside, it would probably be better to make checking and manipulating this a middleware. Extract your actual "business logic" to a separate file, and put your MY_TOGGLE check in a middleware. It enables you to easier test, or e.g. later change the mechanism, or where you store the toggle or similar. Something like this: const app = express(); const { getToggleState, flipToggleState } from './toggle-manager'; app.use('/requests', async function (req, res, next) { const isToggleOn = await getToggleState(); if (isToggleOn) { next(); } else { res.status(403).end('Forbidden'); } }); app.use('/requests', yourRegularHandler); app.post('/stop', (req, res) => { flipToggleState(); res.end('Ok'); }); -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/fc55e8b8-6992-430e-99f6-eb9f5e8b6f12%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.