Script running problems on windows 10

• Laravel Mix Version: 1.0.3
• Node Version (node -v): 6.9.4
• NPM Version (npm -v): 3.10.10
• OS: Windows 10

Description:

I installed laravel-mix with npm install laravel-mix, copied the webpack.mix.js file to my project folder, copied the following scripts as is told in the docs:

"scripts": {
    "dev": "NODE_ENV=development webpack --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch": "NODE_ENV=development webpack --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "hot": "NODE_ENV=development webpack-dev-server --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "production": "NODE_ENV=production webpack --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
}

First problem I get is, if I try to npm run dev, I get the NODE_ENV not recognized error that I think is pretty common in windows, so I googled up and found that I should add a ‘SET’ before the NODE_ENV and a & for concatenating as in SET NODE_ENV=development & webpack, but if I try to run npm run dev again it will hang in 95% forever with no output, I also figured out that if I do not add anything in my webpack.mix.js it won’t hang in 95%, but of course will compile nothing.

Steps To Reproduce:

Init new project in windows npm init -y npm install -S laravel-mix Copy the scripts I mentioned above from official doc npm run dev (or any other script)

Note: I need to work in the same project with a team member which uses Windows and I use MacOS, in my Mac everything works perfectly with the doc’s scripts, the problem is: will need to have different scripts to run laravel-mix? Is there a possibility of running with one default script for all platforms?

Thanks!

[QWp6t]

Install cross-env and precede each of the script commands with it, i.e., cross-env NODE_ENV=...

See also: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/package.json#L5-L10

[decadence]

Release notes say:

cross-env has been removed as a dependency of Mix. It doesn’t make sense for us to maintain it. Frameworks like Laravel will already pull in cross-env, but for your personal projects, either open your package.json file and remove the cross-env path from all of your npm scripts, or do npm install cross-env

I don’t undestand. Do I need it or not? It says we don’t need cross-env but then it suggests install it. And why we don’t need it if Windows fails without it?