Laravel project auto refresh after changes - laravel

Question

Does anyone know if there is a way to run the code changes in a Laravel project without refreshing the page every time.
I know that to see the changes I need to
php artisan serve
but I do it every time and it is kind of frustrating.
Thank you anyways.

Answer 1

You can achieve this with Laravel Mix.
According to this part of the documentation, you need to edit your webpack.mix.js file, and add this to the end:
mix.browserSync('127.0.0.1:8000');
It needs to match to the output of the php artisan serve command, where you found a line something like this:
Laravel development server started: <http://127.0.0.1:8000>
After this, you have to run the php artisan serve, and the npm run watch command simultaneously. You must leave to run both commands while you edit your files.
Note: The first time you run the npm run watch, it installs additional components. But the command output is quite clear on that. If everything is in order, Laravel Mix automatically opens your browser with http://localhost:3000, or something like this.

Answer 2

add in webpack.mix.js file in laravel
mix.browserSync('127.0.0.1:8000');
then run this command
> npm install browser-sync browser-sync-webpack-plugin#2.0.1 --save-dev --production=false
after this run npm run watch
> Browsersync automatic run your port 3000

Answer 3

First make sure you install nodejs, After that install laravel-mix
npm install --save-dev laravel-mix
create webpack.mix.js file in root folder for your project and add to it
const mix =require('laravel-mix')
mix.browserSync('127.0.0.1:8000');
Open package.json file and add to script section:
"scripts": {
"watch": "mix watch"
}
Run laravel project
php artisan serve
To update laravel project auto when you make changes run in another terminal:
npm run watch
Updated from Laravel 9.x
you can use vite instead of laravel-mix, you should run this command to install vite:
npm install
Without any configuration, The next line of code will include auto in master page, If you want to include in another master page like admin, you can write it to auto refresh when make changes:
#vite(['resources/sass/app.scss', 'resources/js/app.js'])
After installing vite, run this command
npm run dev
And run
php artisan serve
For more information, view docs

Answer 4

To achieve this you can use Laravel Mix
Ensure that Node.js and NPM are installed:
run node -v and npm -v.
Install Laravel Mix
npm install.
Install browser-sync and browser-sync-webpack-plugin
npm install browser-sync browser-sync-webpack-plugin --save-dev --production=false
Open webpack.mix.js and add this line
mix.browserSync('127.0.0.1:8000');.
Run Project with these two commands: The npm run watch command will continue running in your terminal and watch all relevant CSS and JavaScript files for changes. Webpack will automatically recompile your assets when it detects a change
php artisan serve. and then npm run watch.