Optional environment (.env) file

[mystiker]

At the current version of nodejs, the param --env-file errors out if this file is not available.
We want to use this file as a optional settings file no matter the environment so we need to switch from native --env-file support to dotenv package, since this will not be fixed soon. See nodejs/node#53177 for more details.

This will allow more control over the maybe accessible .env file.

We can remove the different settings at backend/package.json (serve | serve:env | start) after this.