Laravel Mix and SASS changing font directory - laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel 5.4 and Laravel Mix to output SASS files.
In my font definitions I'm configuring them so that when the CSS is output it will point to files such as public/assets/fnt/font-name/filename.ext but the processor changes the output so that it will instead point to public/fonts/filename.ext. Is there a way to stop it from changing the output paths?
It makes little sense to me that it would do something like this by default.
Edit
I've seen that the defaults they're using in Mix are the culprit:
module.exports.module = {
rules: [
// ...
{
test: /\.(woff2?|ttf|eot|svg|otf)$/,
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
name: 'fonts/[name].[ext]?[hash]',
publicPath: '/'
}
}
]
};
I've tried using null-loader instead of file-loader but instead it causes it to fail because it can't find the files in node_modules which is not where it should be looking in the first place.
Removing the rule in question results in a flood of errors from trying to open and evaluate the font files in question:
error in ./public/assets/fnt/fanfare-jf/fanfare-jf.ttf
Module parse failed: DIRECTORY\public\assets\fnt\fanfare-jf\fanfare-jf.ttf Unexpected character '' (1:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
(Source code omitted for this binary file)
# ./~/css-loader!./~/postcss-loader!./~/resolve-url-loader!./~/sass-loader?sourceMap&precision=8!./resources/assets/sass/app.scss 6:2525-2590
# ./resources/assets/sass/app.scss
# multi ./resources/assets/js/app.js ./resources/assets/sass/app.scss
I can at least add emitFiles: false to options to prevent it from making copies of the file, but the paths are still being altered.

Answer 1

I ended up with the following configuration to at least get it to a working state.
let assetDir = 'assets/build';
mix.config.fileLoaderDirs.fonts = `${assetDir}/${mix.config.fileLoaderDirs.fonts}`;
mix.config.fileLoaderDirs.images = `${assetDir}/${mix.config.fileLoaderDirs.images}`;
mix.sass('resources/sass/app.scss', `public/${assetDir}/css`)
.js('resources/js/app.js', `public/${assetDir}/js`);
Updated:
In newer versions this has been made customizable via mix.options() and can be adjusted as below:
let assetDir = 'assets/build';
mix.options({
fileLoaderDirs: {
images: `${assetDir}/img`,
fonts: `${assetDir}/fonts`
}
});
// adjust build commands accordingly, for example:
mix.js('resources/js/app.js', `public/${assetDir}/js`);

Answer 2

The output you got is the intended behaviour due to your configuration.
You are using this configuration to load the file:
options: {
name: 'fonts/[name].[ext]?[hash]',
publicPath: '/'
}
Which says use the publicPath as public and create a file with the name fonts/[name].[ext]?[hash] and webpack knows about what these symbols '/', '.', '?' in the name do.
It just looks for the fonts directory and if there is no any fonts directory it creates a new one and place the files into that directory.
So, you need to use this configuration for your folder structure:
options: {
name: 'assets/fnt/font-name/[name].[ext]?[hash]',
publicPath: '/'
}
This should work for your configuration.
More on file-loader configuration:
https://github.com/webpack-contrib/file-loader#filename-templates
Edit:
Since Laravel Mix uses Webpack in it's background and Webpack doesn't have any knowledge of the fonts file when there is no any appropriate loader added to the configuration. So, the error:
Module parse failed: DIRECTORY\public\assets\fnt\fanfare-jf\fanfare-jf.ttf Unexpected character '' (1:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
is occurred.
You need to tell the Webpack to load the fonts to your desired directory and the fonts linked in your SASS file will be linked by the Webpack without any more configurations.