Guide needed to set environment variables in ionicv3

I will refer to the link below: https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/configuring.html

I am confused with
$ export HTTP_PROXY=“http://proxy.example.com:8888” # also used by npm
$ export HTTPS_PROXY=“https://proxy.example.com:8888” # also used by npm
$ export IONIC_HTTP_PROXY=“http://proxy.example.com:8888

where do i configure the parameters to? I do not see an environment file to add the config…

In the configuration files for your shell. I use zsh, so for me that would be ~/.zshenv. See the documentation for whatever shell you use for more information.