'NODE_ENV' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Windows

[nosizejosh]

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the back-end will not run on Windows, after following all the steps due to the error

'NODE_ENV' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

only way to get back-end to run is to edit the script source in package.json to

"scripts": { "start": "npm run start:local", "start:local": "SET NODE_ENV=local & nodemon index.js", "start:dev": "SET NODE_ENV=development & nodemon index.js", "start:prod": "SET NODE_ENV=production & node index.js", "test": "jest --coverage", "seed": "node scripts/seed.js", "update-permissions": "node scripts/update-permissions.js", "precommit": "lint-staged", "lint": "eslint --fix **/*.js ./" },

as explained here

[JKHeadley]

@nosizejosh would you mind testing this module to see if it works for you (with the original script command)?

[nosizejosh]

@JKHeadley which module?

[JKHeadley]

@nosizejosh sorry, forgot to link it: https://github.com/laggingreflex/win-node-env

[nosizejosh]

saw this while trying to troubleshoot, knew it would work but didn't want to just fix without reporting, also my fix was actually to place it as dependency in packages.json

[nosizejosh]

trying to create a pull request with below but its too much to clone the whole repo just for this small change. Adding the win-node-env does work as I suspected. I however added as a dependency instead of install globally.

"dependencies": { "aws-sdk": "^2.175.0", "bcryptjs": "^2.4.0", "bell": "^9.3.0", "boom": "^7.2.0", "chalk": "*", "confidence": "^3.0.2", "dotenv": "^2.0.0", "faker": "^4.1.0", "glue": "^5.0.0", "handlebars": "^4.0.6", "hapi-auth-jwt2": "salzhrani/hapi-auth-jwt2#v-17", "imagemagick": "^0.1.3", "iplocation": "^5.0.0", "joi": "^13.3.0", "jsonwebtoken": "^7.1.9", "lodash": "~3.10.1", "lodash-pickdeep": "^1.0.2", "mongoose": "5.0.9", "nes": "^8.1.0", "node-uuid": "^1.4.7", "nodemailer": "^2.6.4", "nodemailer-markdown": "^1.0.1", "owasp-password-strength-test": "^1.3.0", "password-generator": "^2.2.0", "q": "^1.4.1", "request-promise": "^4.2.2", "require-dir": "^0.3.2", "rest-hapi": "^1.2.0", "useragent": "^2.3.0", "zxcvbn": "^4.4.2", "win-node-env": "^0.3.0" },

[le-incroyable1-dev]

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