Cross-env is a valuable npm package designed to streamline cross-platform environment variable setting for Node.js projects. Both version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 share the same core functionality: enabling developers to define environment variables within their scripts, ensuring consistent behavior regardless of the underlying operating system. The package utilizes a single dependency, add-to-path, for managing the system's PATH. The real improvements of version 1.0.1 relies on the package improvements and bugfixes.
Both versions share identical development dependencies, including testing frameworks like Chai, Mocha, and Sinon, linting tools (ESLint), code coverage reporting (Istanbul, codecov.io), and commit message validation tools. This consistent dev environment ensures code quality and maintainability.
Developers using cross-env gain a significant advantage in simplifying cross-platform scripting. Define your environment variables once (e.g. in your package.json scripts) and cross-env will handle the nuances of setting them correctly on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This saves time and reduces potential errors when building cross-platform compatible applications. Furthermore, the project is actively maintained based on the quick release time, even though the changes between versions are miniscule.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 1.0.1 of the package cross-env