This might look like a newbie question, but I am unable to find the way to load environment variables from both .env and .env.local files in node with dotenv.
Is it even possible? How do people load environment variables from both files nowadays if not with dotenv?
Quoting from dotenv's npm page
Should I have multiple .env files?
No. We strongly recommend against having a "main" .env file and an "environment" .env file like .env.test. Your config should vary between deploys, and you should not be sharing values between environments.'
But to use .env.local or .env.test or any other environment.. one at a time is
require('dotenv').config({ path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}` })
If you still want to do it refer to dotenv-flow at https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-flow
dotenv-flow comes with the feature of overwriting variables at environments.