How can I run 'storybook dev' in production mode?

[riffdr]

I am working in a vite monorepo which has to have set the NODE_ENV variable to 'production' by default. My storybook is running on the "@storybook/html-vite" framework. I manage to override the 'development' mode using 'viteFinal' in my SB config file when building storybook, but not when serving it via the CLI command 'storybook dev' , which triggers the vite.config.ts build function 'defineConfig' always in 'development' mode and does not wait for 'viteFinal' to complete.

Seems that vite.config.ts gets called before the viteFinal function in .storybook/main.ts.

Any ideas of how to bypass the default configuration mode 'storybook dev'. Thank you