“NODE_ENV” is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable command or batch file

Question

I\'m trying to setup an environment for a Node.js app. but I\'m getting this error every time.

\"NODE_ENV\" is not recognized as an internal or extern

Answer 1

If anyone else came here like me trying to find a solution for the error:

'env' is not recognized as an internal or external command

The reason I got this is that I was migrating an angular solution from a mac development machine over to a windows 10 desktop. This is how I resolved it.

1. run npm install --save-dev cross-env

2. go into my package.json file and change all the script references from env to cross-env

Then my commands like: npm run start:some_random_environment_var now run fine on Windows 10.