Support dotenv

[jhalborg]

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It would be super cool if one could

npx apollo schema:publish -e .env.stage

for example, and have a .env.stage file a la

ENGINE_API_KEY="someapikey"
ENGINE_ENDPOINT_URL="https://api.myapp.com"

and if no arguments were given, apollo schema:publish would just look for the env vars ENGINE_API_KEY and ENGINE_ENDPOINT_URL

[meatherly]

@jhalborg do you have a config file or are you just trying to use the it without?
You could make a apollo.config.js file then require dotenv package and assign the environment variables that way.

[jhalborg]

Sure, that's a good idea, but it would be easier/cleaner, at least in my opinion, to be able to just pass in the .env file directly as an argument :)

[meatherly]

@jhalborg looks like it was partially added recently #815

[meatherly]

🤦‍♂️ nm you're saying to specify one. Cool! Looks like we have a starting point on how to implement this.

[JakeDawkins]

Supporting completely custom env files could be tricky, since it would require another config option in VS Code. Since this issue itself is at least partially resolved, I'll close this issue for now. For a little more discussion and a workaround if existing solutions don't work for you, check out #1058