# Devops: Ops should be able to configure nuxt as easily as Dev. 'nuxt dev' works but 'nuxt build' doesn't. process.env.SOME_LIB_VAR
Process.env not populated in defineNuxtConfig
3.xpending triageneeds reproduction
add note about `--dotenv` in dev to runtime config page
documentation3.x
RC12：`--dotenv` config doesn’t work in production environment
3.xworkaround available