[vite-node] set NODE_ENV to production

[pietrovismara]

I'm trying to set NODE_ENV when running vite-node:

NODE_ENV=production vite-node --options.mode=production src/index.ts

What happens is that vite-node overrides NODE_ENV to development.

Is it possible (and is it a good idea) to use vite-node to run nodejs in a production environment?

Alternatively is there a way to override the mode of vite when launching vite-node?

[Johann-S]

I saw here: #4420 (comment)

That node-vite starts 2 node processes that summed take 6 times more memory than Node alone... So currently I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use it in production. That's what I would like to do too 😅

Unfortunately I don't know what's the purpose of those two processes.. Because maybe if you disable the watch mode, only one process will stay?! 🤔

[pietrovismara]

Gave up with vite-node a long time ago but thanks for the insight