Feature request: Export function for programmatically loading .env files

[hrastnik]

What I'm trying to achieve:
I would like to use environment variables to control whether some babel plugins will be enabled. Namely - I want to include babel-plugin-transform-remove-console when the env variable DISABLE_LOGGING is set to true. This variable is configured in my .env.dev file.
I'm trying to achieve this by reading the value of the DISABLE_LOGGING env variable in my babel.config.js config, but
in order to access the variable through process.env.DISABLE_LOGGING, I have to first load the react-native-dotenv babel plugin.

Solution:
It would be nice if react-native-dotenv exported the config function similar to the dotenv package which can be used like so require('dotenv').config().

I have been able to achieve this effect using this code, but it's undocumented and feels kind of hacky.

const dotenv = require("react-native-dotenv")({});
dotenv.pre();

Is it possible to extract the configuration function and export it separately?

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[goatandsheep]

Try using dotenv-flow

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[goatandsheep]

or try using process.env?

[haelsisy]

How did you manage to do it?