text: require('dotenv').config();//instatiate environment variables
  
  const CONFIG = {} //Make this global to use all over the application
  
  CONFIG.app          = process.env.APP   || 'dev';
  CONFIG.port         = process.env.PORT  || '3000';
  CONFIG.STORAGEPATH  = process.env.STORAGEPATH || '/data_storage'
  
  CONFIG.db_dialect   = process.env.DB_DIALECT    || 'mysql';
  CONFIG.db_host      = process.env.DB_HOST       || 'localhost';
  CONFIG.db_port      = process.env.DB_PORT       || '3306';
  CONFIG.db_name      = process.env.DB_NAME       || 'name';
  CONFIG.db_user      = process.env.DB_USER       || 'root';
  CONFIG.db_password  = process.env.DB_PASSWORD   || 'db-password';
  
  //Log Env
  console.log("Environment:", CONFIG.app);
  
  module.exports = CONFIG;
  