NODE_ENV is not recognised as an internal or external command

Question

I am developing in node.js and wanted to take into account both production and development environment. I found out that setting NODE_ENV while running the node.js server do

Answer 1

I can suggest cross platform sollution. It's done with the help of the cross-env npm package. Your script section would look like this:

"scripts": {
    "globals" : "npm i -g cross-env",
    "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development &  node ./bin/server",
    "qa2": "cross-env NODE_ENV=qa2 & node ./bin/server",
    "prod": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production & node ./bin/server"
  }

So you run once:

npm run globals // to install global dependencies

Then you're free to use your scripts both on linux and windows(mac?).