Use dotenv for environment variables

[angelocordon]

I think it might be worth looking into using dotenv to manage environment variables, like Sparkpost's API key. This seems to be the most compatible/reliable one I've seen for Meteor - https://atmospherejs.com/pauldowman/dotenv

The main problem statement here is simply a small inconvenience for now but I think could help future contributors in the long run. Currently, in order to get the authentication emails, we have to replace he password value in line 14 of dev-settings.json and ignore this when committing.

cb-connect/dev-settings.json

Line 14 in f8299e1

"password": "password",

Ideally, each contributor can have their own set of environment keys that doesn't checked in with git. I think using environment variables to manage these for us should help users get up and running easier and allow for better productivity.

I believe it might also give us a simpler way of running local versions as you probably shouldn't need to append --settings dev-settings.json when starting up anymore.

Of course this is a tiny optimization for now, but can be helpful in the future. Posting this here for discussion as we're going to be aware of this when deploying to Heroku as well.

[distalx]

Hi! @angelocordon

Ideally, each contributor can have their own set of environment keys that doesn't checked in with git. I think using environment variables to manage these for us should help users get up and running easier and allow for better productivity.

We already do have listed my-settings.json inside our .gitignore file for the same purpose. here

[angelocordon]

Oh coo, thanks @distalx 👍 I think considering it was ignored in git, I didn't realize that something like that existed.

Anyways, going to close this question for now, definitely a pre-optimization.

[angelocordon]

Reopening in association to #81