### Prereqs
    npm install dotenv

## Cloudant (DB)

 Before querying the cloudant db, Create a cloudant DB and follow the steps below,
 create a .env file with your Cloudant credentials in the root directory.
  ```
   cloudant_username=myaccount # Replace myaccount with your account name
   cloudant_password='secret'  # Replace secret with your password
  ```
or on a terminal
```
 echo "/.env"                       >> .gitignore   # Do not track .env in the revision history
 echo "cloudant_username=myaccount" >  .env         # Replace myaccount with your account name
 echo "cloudant_password='secret'"  >> .env         # Replace secret with your password
 ```
### Credentials in app.js
      require('dotenv').load();

     // Load the Cloudant library.
     var Cloudant = require('cloudant');

      var username = process.env.cloudant_username;
      var password = process.env.cloudant_password;

      // Initialize the library
      var cloudant = Cloudant({
          account: username,
          password: password
      });