The other days when I changed the development environment for my Laravel 7 application, from MacBook to Windows, I started to have a problem. When I tried to use npm for Laravel Mix, the following error kept it from working,

Laravel ‘cross-env’ Is Not Recognized as An Internal or External Command.

After I googled it and read some Stackoverflow posts I found that you need to do the following steps:

• Delete node_modules folder from your project.

• Run in your terminal or command prompt the following command

npm install --global cross-env

• Delete “cross-env”: “^5.0.1”, from package.json file devDependencies section.

• After deletion run

npm install --no-bin-links

• In the end run

npm run dev

and see what happens