I started using laravel-mix on my new Laravel 5.7 project to compile all the js/css into one file, which will appear in my public js/css directory (one for each page) like this:
mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css')
.js('resources/js/create.member.js', 'public/js/backend/members')
.sass('resources/sass/create.member.scss', 'public/css/backend/members')
.sourceMaps();
Like this I want to keep the views tidy and reduce the number of assets that have to be loaded.
Everything fine so far and I understand how to work with laravel-mix. Now I installed some packages, specifically cropperjs and summernote, via npm, to my node_modules directory.
It fails when I import/require their scss/js to the scripts which are going to be compiled and placed in public by laravel-mix because it seems that these scripts (cropper.js, summernote.scss, etc...) are referencing to other assets across their origin package directory within the node_modules directory (fonts, images, etc...)
For JS I do:
require('../../node_modules/cropperjs/dist/cropper.js');
require('../../node_modules/summernote/dist/summernote.js');
Fors SCSS I do:
#import '~cropperjs/src/css/cropper';
#import '~summernote/src/less/summernote-bs4';
My question is: What is good practice when using packages, installed with npm?
Do I have to put the whole package directory to my public directory?
Do I link to the assets in the package directory which is located in the node_modules directory?
Or is their any chance left to compile them together with my other assets via laravel-mix/webpack, maybe a flag I'm missing or so?
Do I have to use any additional software like bower to make things happen?
For js I just use
import 'vue'
import 'cropperjs'
Usually the package documentation will tell you how to import it.
You should not be compiling node assets in webpack.mix... Like barghouthi said, usually the package documentation will tell you how to import the package in your js file.
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I am trying to install the laravel-mix. I am having a hard time in installing laravel-mix. I already installed it but the files for css and js do not contain anything.
You need to have some sort of code in app.scss so that it compiles to app.css. After you write your stylesheets in apps.scss, run npm run dev to have it compile to app.css, and use {{mix('dir/to/app.css'}} in your <script> header.
I am working on the Laravel project, and intend to use Vue.js as its client-side scripting. When I searched the internet, I found that I had to use the npm install command. My question is if I run the order, will it affect the project I'm working on?
For example, in the directory structure or variable section?
It will change only package.json and /node_modules folder (it will download vue.js last version package into this folder) in your root directory. But it won't affect your existing codebase until you don't use them via importing or accessing it. It is like installing a package with composer, but not using it. The downloaded package will stay in /vendor folder and package name in composer.json, composer.lock
I am a beginner to this framework. i have added new css files in my sass folder and compiled them successfully to use.
How can i add new js file in assets folder and compile them to use ?
You can do somethink like this but before stop npm compiling:
mix.js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'public/js')
.js('resources/frontend/js/scripts.js', 'public/js')
.sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/css')
.sass('resources/frontend/scss/style.scss', 'public/css');
And then run just npm run dev or npm run watch.
i concluded some things as a beginner:
1. we put our js or css files in assets/css, assets/js folder and using webpack.min.js we compile this files and minimize.
2. after compilation, the compiled code generates in public/css, public/js folders accordingly.
3. My js file has some external links and things as i am using a theme for a blog, and it is getting issues in compilation.
4. the solution is to put your files directly in public/js or public/css folders .
If anyone has any further suggession... please share.
Thanks
I have downloaded a free HTML theme.
If I open index.html file of the theme in the browser it works perfectly.
However, now I need to integrate this theme in my Laravel Application. If I inspect element in the index.html file loaded in the browser, I can see that some .scss files are getting called.
The scss folder is present in the theme folder but I really don't know how to include this into my project
You can think of SASS as high level css which provides you with more features like making variable and easier css syntax etc ... but since browsers doesn't understands SASS you have to compile SASS into CSS there are multiple ways to do that.
First if your theme folder already has complied SASS (CSS Folder) you can use it if not and want to integrate with Laravel please follow these steps
Copy everything in your SASS Folder and place it in "/resources/assets/sass" so
they can be found by Laravel to be compiled
now you have to compile SASS into css you can use gulp manually or make use of
Laravel mix which is already implemented for you by Laravel
Laravel Ships with packages.json file you will find that in your app root
directory so before being able to compile SASS you have to run npm install in
your root directory (make sure that you have npm and node installed)
after running npm install now you can run either one of these to compile any
sass files you have in "resources/assets/sass"
npm run dev //this will compile one time only
npm run watch //this will automatically watch for any changes and compile
Now your sass files should have been compiled to css you can find the compiled css files in your "public/css" folder.
Hopefully you found this helpful you can read more about this in Laravel docs frontend section specifically Laravel Mix here
Laravel has a file called webpack.mix.js where you edit all frontend assets compilation by calling the mix.js/sass with the respective arguments. It is located at the root of the project.
1- In the resources folders create a new folder and call it scss with a app.scss file. The complete tree will be scss/app.scss
2- Go to the webpack.mix.js and add a new line: mix.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css');. The first argument of the method is the source file, and the second is the destination folder.
3- In the app.scss file import all the theme scss files using #import 'file/source';
4- Open terminal/cmd in your Laravel project folder and Run npm run dev/watch to compiled your scss file, and at end your css file result will be located in public/css/app.css.
5- Import the app.css into your Html head section and reload the page. If the styles do not work, press ctrl + f5 to clean browser cache.
The latest version of Laravel utilizes a tool called Vite as a replacement for Laravel Mix.
In order to use Sass with Vite, make sure that Vite and Sass are installed run npm install and npm add -D sass
Make sure you have a sass or scss folder in your projects resources directory, and an scss file inside like app.scss
Make sure that you have configured vite.config.js (which can be found in a new Laravel projects root directory) to include an entry point for sass like so, utilizing the correct path and name for the folder you made:
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import laravel from 'laravel-vite-plugin';
export default defineConfig({
plugins: [
laravel({
input: ['resources/scss/app.scss', 'resources/js/app.js'],
refresh: true,
}),
],
});
And in your Blade files add the following, again making sure to use the correct path for the folder you made:
#vite(['resources/scss/app.scss', 'resources/js/app.js'])
Then you can build your sass using Vite by running npm run build
I have a npm library that I use for styling which uses the following syntax to import scss files. I am not sure what this means and could not find any documentation online. I use grunt with webpack during my build process.
#import '~bourbon/app/assets/stylesheets/bourbon';
#import '~bourbon-neat';
From documentation on a sass-loader#imports project,
webpack provides an advanced mechanism to resolve files. The
sass-loader uses node-sass' custom importer feature to pass all
queries to the webpack resolving engine. Thus you can import your Sass
modules from node_modules. Just prepend them with a ~ to tell webpack
that this is not a relative import
So if you have a file named foo.css and a module foo then you would use ~ if you want to include the module.