Hey!

First off, I want to express my appreciation for the geo-atlas project. It's a fantastic initiative, and I've found it incredibly useful.

I'm AxiosLeo, and I've been exploring the project setup. I've noticed that while the frontend application and docker-compose configurations successfully read environment variables from the .env file located in the project's root directory, the Java backend currently requires manual configuration of environment variables. This can be a bit cumbersome, especially during development, as it disrupts the unified management of project-wide environment variables.

To streamline the development experience, I'd like to suggest enhancing the Java backend to automatically load environment variables from the root .env file. Incorporating a library like dotenv-java (https://github.com/cdimascio/dotenv-java) could provide a clean and efficient solution for this. This would greatly simplify environment variable management and ensure consistency across all parts of the project in development environments.

Thank you for considering this suggestion. I believe this enhancement would significantly improve the developer experience for geo-atlas.

Best regards,

AxiosLeo