Support dotenv - New feature request

[crazyoptimist]

Thanks for your efforts, maintainers and contributors.
Current implementation can not leverage dotenv@npm in case of using sails cli.
I guess it can be solved by a hook using dotenv npm package as a dependency.
Let me know your opinion guys.

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[eashaw]

Thanks for the feedback @crazyoptimist. I think you're right about implementing it as a hook, If you're feeling up to it you could make it an installable hook to make this available to other Sails users. https://sailsjs.com/documentation/concepts/extending-sails/hooks/installable-hooks#creating-an-installable-hook

[crazyoptimist]

Okay,
I'll try to get some work done on this.

[crazyoptimist]

Bang!
I was about to reinvent the wheel. Here is an install-able hook: sails-hook-dotenv
And it turned out that this issue has not been resolved(already closed though 👎 )
When are you planning to look into defining hooks load sequence?
If someone stuck in dotenv, refer to this workaround.

[crazyoptimist]

Let me close this issue for now assuming you have define hooks load sequence in your roadmap.