I'm fairly new to javascript and wanted to hide my API key. Can't seem to get dotenv to work. I've followed the steps on the dotemv documentation but no luck. First i ran "npm install dotenv --save" which added the following files/folders into my project

• Node_modules folder
• package-lock.json
• package.json

app.js

import "dotenv/config"; 
import express from "express";
require("dotenv").config();

console.log(process.env.API_KEY);
const API = API_KEY;

.env

API_KEY = "123"

Uncaught TypeError: Failed to resolve module specifier "dotenv/config". Relative references must start with either "/", "./", or "../".

I tried adding the "/" and "./" but the same error. it's in the same location.