How can I set an environment variable as gulp task?

Question

I don\'t want type the extra arguments NODE_ENV=\'production\' gulp every time I run gulp to set an environment variable.

I would rather set the environ

Answer 1

You can also define it as a script in your package.json

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "scripts": {
    "gulp": "NODE_ENV='development' gulp",
    "gulp-build": "NODE_ENV='production' gulp"
  },
  ...
}

And run it with npm run gulp-build. This has a few benefits

• You can define arguments easily instead of typing them every time
• Global gulp installation isn't required (same for other tools, like webpack)
• You can define multiple variants with different environment variables and(or) arguments without changing the gulpfile (as you can see above - gulp and gulp-build for development and production respectively)