Cannot access environment variable in desired file

Question

I am trying to access environment variables in my Display.js, I have created a .env file in the root of my project, however, process.env is not logging my env variable.

.env inside of root folder of my project:

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Display.js (located in same folder as .env):

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Image of my folders:

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Answer 1

.env must be located of project root directory