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

[nosizejosh]

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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