'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command about mern-boilerplate

[evabat]

@manavpandya and @zarmeen92

Yes indeed, bash commands do not work in Windows environment (even if you try GitBash, there is no luck), it is a common problem. I finally managed to resolve this by using cross-env. I have installed the module and then I have modified the package.json like this:

"dev": "node node_modules/cross-env/src/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development webpack --mode=development --config ./client/config/webpack.dev.config.js --watch",

It is not the most 'beautiful' or 'optimized' way, but it works.

[zarmeen92]

@manavpandya I am also facing similar issue. Were u able to resolve it?

[djizco]

I have not been able to replicate this issue. Could you give me some information on your environment so I can fix it? My instinct is it has something to do with bash. My guess is you are using a non-unix system like windows. You likely need to use a linux bash shell to run the application.

[abhinavpanse]

same issue

[djizco]

I've added OS requirements. Haven't been able to replicate this issue on my environment so I'm pretty sure thats the issue. If this is still a problem, I'll come back to this.

[djizco]

You can resolve this issue for windows by updating the scripts in your package.json with windows compatible scripts instead of the bash scripts.