diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9ff855ac7..c923092ec 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ jobs:
           key: dependency-cache-{{ .Revision }}
       - run:
           name: build:dist
-          command: npm run dist
+          command: NODE_ENV='production' npm run dist
       - run:
           name: build:debug
           command: find dist/ -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | sort -k 2