Adds dotenv to load configurations

README.md

@@ -363,6 +363,10 @@ $ PORT=8080 parse-server --appId APPLICATION_ID --masterKey MASTER_KEY
 
 For the full list of configurable environment variables, run `parse-server --help`.
 
+#### Using a `.env` file
+
+The parse-server CLI can use [dotenv](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv) to load environment variables from a `.env` file.
+
 ### Available Adapters
 
 All official adapters are distributed as scoped pacakges on [npm (@parse)](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=scope%3Aparse).

package.json

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     "body-parser": "1.18.3",
     "commander": "2.17.1",
     "deepcopy": "1.0.0",
+    "dotenv": "^6.0.0",
     "express": "4.16.2",
     "intersect": "1.0.1",
     "lodash": "4.17.5",

src/cli/parse-live-query-server.js

+try {
+  require('dotenv').config();
+} catch(e) { /**/ }
+
 import definitions from './definitions/parse-live-query-server';
 import runner from './utils/runner';
 import { ParseServer } from '../index';

src/cli/parse-server.js

 /* eslint-disable no-console */
+try {
+  require('dotenv').config();
+} catch(e) { /**/ }
+
 import ParseServer from '../index';
 import definitions from './definitions/parse-server';
 import cluster from 'cluster';