different process.env.NODE_ENV for "testing production"?

[tjdam]

Because Next.js works so differently when built, I test the using the flag "production" in my machine. The issue is that, because I'm local and not in the production server I need to use the local addresses for external assets and data which results in me changing a couple of variables in my code to make that happen. I haven't pushed to prod with these variables changed, but I feel like it's a disaster waiting to happen lol.

What do you guys do to test builds? Thanks :)