Can't change NODE_ENV to other value beside production – Docker

I’ve tried passing NODE_ENV as an argument

ARG NODE_ENV
ENV NODE_ENV=${NODE_ENV}

I tried passing it as an environment variable on my docker-compose.yaml

services:
  app:
    build:
      context: .
      args:
        - NODE_ENV=development
    environment:
      - PORT=3000
      - NODE_ENV=development

Nothing works, inside my program, its value is "production"

My Dockerfile is based on node:18-slim, there is nothing special on it.

Complete example

Dockerfile

FROM node:18-slim AS base

FROM base AS build
WORKDIR /opt
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
RUN npm run prisma:generate

FROM base
WORKDIR /app
RUN apt-get update && 
  apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends gettext-base supervisor nginx
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/configfile.template
COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
COPY --from=build /opt/node_modules node_modules
COPY --from=build /opt/dist .

ARG NODE_ENV
ENV NODE_ENV ${NODE_ENV}

ARG PORT=3000
ENV PORT $PORT
EXPOSE $PORT

CMD ["/usr/bin/supervisord"]

docker-compose.yaml

services:
  app:
    build:
      context: .
      args:
        NODE_ENV: ${NODE_ENV:-development}
    environment:
      - PORT=3000
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://docker:docker@postgres:5432/oidc?schema=public
      - REDIS_HOST=redis
      - REDIS_PORT=6379
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
      postgres:
        condition: service_healthy
  redis:
    image: redis:7
    tmpfs:
      - /data
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "redis-cli ping | grep PONG"]
      interval: 1s
      timeout: 5s
      start_period: 5s
      retries: 3
  postgres:
    image: postgres:14.3
    tmpfs:
      - /var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready --dbname $$POSTGRES_DB --username $$POSTGRES_USER"]
      interval: 1s
      timeout: 5s
      start_period: 5s
      retries: 3
    environment:
      POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
      POSTGRES_PORT: 5432
      POSTGRES_USER: docker
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: docker
      POSTGRES_DB: oidc

If I build without docker compose, it works.

docker compose version
Docker Compose version v2.15.1

docker-compose –version
Docker Compose version v2.15.1

docker version

Client:
 Cloud integration: v1.0.31
 Version:           20.10.23
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.18.10
 Git commit:        7155243
 Built:             Thu Jan 19 17:35:19 2023
 OS/Arch:           darwin/arm64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Server: Docker Desktop 4.17.0 (99724)
 Engine:
  Version:          22.06.0-beta.0-926-g914b02ebaf.m
  API version:      1.43 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.18.4
  Git commit:       914b02ebaf
  Built:            Thu Feb  9 12:31:06 2023
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     true
 containerd:
  Version:          1.6.18
  GitCommit:        2456e983eb9e37e47538f59ea18f2043c9a73640
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.4
  GitCommit:        v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

I read somewhere else, that docker-compose never overwrites the environment variables from the base image. Is it because of that? My base image is a node

What I’m doing wrong?