Adds dotenv to load configurations

[flovilmart]

Adds dotenv that let us read contents of a .env file to load environment variables automatically. Will likely be used alongside #4960

[acinader]

I like this. I don't use dotenv, but I think I should re-look.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv#preload

Do you think you should just bake this into the npm scripts (npx?).

"This is the preferred approach when using import instead of require."

Also, you're trying and catch, but this is the idiom in the docs:

const result = dotenv.config()
 
if (result.error) {
  throw result.error
}
 
console.log(result.parsed)

Based on that, it seems that it won't throw? In other words, if we don't want to report on the error, we can just ignore? Presumably, you put in the catch as a result of your using it and knowing its needed, so I'm just asking.

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Codecov Report

Merging #5013 into master will decrease coverage by 0.02%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

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- Coverage   94.26%   94.24%   -0.03%     
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- Hits         8258     8256       -2     
- Misses        502      504       +2

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src/Adapters/Storage/Mongo/MongoStorageAdapter.js	91.33% <0%> (-0.75%)	⬇️
src/RestWrite.js	93.15% <0%> (+0.18%)	⬆️

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[flovilmart]

I recently came across more configuration possibilities like nconf etc.. May be worth exploring.

[acinader]

I've been using https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config for a few years.

[flovilmart]

I need to jump back on this at one point!

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