Environment Variables - Blowing up

So it appears I can’t add my own environment variables by simply adding require('dotenv').config() to index.js and added an .env file to the root of my create-react-app. Now it blows up creating all sorts of pain…such as it’s creating a package.json.lock file now and npm install is totally bombing:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md#adding-custom-environment-variables

I don’t get this, so I must add REACT_APP in front of every environment variable? I simply want to create environment variables for my Amazon S3 and other things. I tried adding those via my own .env file and running dotenv

I’m creating some deployment scripts for travis in a deploy folder, and I need to be using custom environment variables for that for Amazon, ect.

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The engines field is primarily used in PaaS environments like App Engine or Heroku.

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@dschinkel you’ll need to change your global version, go ahead and run npm install -g npm@3