Description

Currently, the project uses dotenv to load environment variables and nodemon to watch for file changes during development. With Node.js now supporting native environment variable loading and --watch mode, we can simplify the project setup by removing these dependencies.

Expected Behavior

• The application should run correctly using:

  node --env-file=.env --watch ./src/server.js

• Environment variables are read directly by Node.js without requiring dotenv.
• Development workflow does not depend on nodemon.
• package.json no longer lists dotenv or nodemon as dependencies.

Proposed Solution

• Remove dotenv and nodemon from package.json.
• Update config/index.js (and any other files) to use Node.js's native process.env directly, without dotenv.
• Update the start script in package.json to:

"start": "node --env-file=.env --watch ./src/server.js"

• Test the app to ensure it runs correctly with the new setup.