I created a command-line app that uses a .env file in conjunction with the dotenv NPM module to handle API credentials. So invoking the entry point like node main.js in the project dir works.
I'm now building a web-interface and invoking this application using the child_process module. The problem is that the environment variables are now mismatched. The command-line app sees process.env.APIKey as undefined and it crashes.
Now I think this is a unix-specific issue. How can I solve this problem (specifically, invoking main.js programmatically while retaining its own environment variables scope).