Laravel Mix Support

[o15a3d4l11s2]

Is there built-in support for Laravel Mix? If not, is there a recommended way to run npm run production?

[ikari7789]

To be honest, this package used to contain a dependency on https://github.com/capistrano/npm I believe. I removed it because it was always buggy for us.

You could try adding it separately and see how your results may fare. It seems it hasn’t had any update in 2 years, so I’m unsure if anything has changed there.

I wouldn’t be against trying to figure out a solution as it’s something I’m also interested in.

[o15a3d4l11s2]

Not sure which approach is better - deploying the generated files or generating them on the target server with Laravel Mix.

What I did to generate them on the server was:

1. Added require "capistrano/npm" in Capfile
2. Defined a new task in deploy.rb

namespace :laravel do
    desc "Laravel Mixing..."
    task :mix do
        on roles(:all) do
            execute "cd #{current_path} && npm run prod"
        end
    end
end

3. Called the newly defined task in deploy.rb

namespace :deploy do
    after :published, "laravel:mix"
end

Do you see anything wrong in this approach? I am new to Capistrano, so any feedback will be appreciated.

[ikari7789]

You'd want to run it before the published stage as if it's already symlinked to current, that means the site should be live/ready to access.