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Shim to load environment variables from `.env` into `ENV` in *development*.
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Storing [configuration in the environment](http://www.12factor.net/config) is
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one of the tenets of a [twelve-factor app](http://www.12factor.net/). Anything
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that is likely to change between deployment environments-such as resource
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handles for databases or credentials for external services - should be
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extracted from the code into environment variables.
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But it is not always practical to set environment variables on development
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machines or continuous integration servers where multiple projects are
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run. dotenv loads variables from a `.env` file into `ENV` when the environment
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is bootstrapped.
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