laravel-bundler

Laravel Bundler

Modern asset building tool for Laravel framework with better defaults.

Installation

:warning: This package does not work with laravel-mix; you must remove laravel-mix before using this one

# yarn
yarn add laravel-bundler

# npm
npm install laravel-bundler 

Usage

Create a resources/js/app.js file like

// Import libraries
import 'vue';
import { BootstrapVue } from 'bootstrap-vue'
// You can import styles like this
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css'
import 'bootstrap-vue/dist/bootstrap-vue.css'
// Write your own code
Vue.use(BootstrapVue);

new Vue({
  'el': '#app'
})

Create a webpack.config.js file on your project root and remove webpack.mix.js if exists.

const webpack = require('webpack');
const ReloadOnBladeChange = require('laravel-bundler/src/plugins/ReloadOnBladeChange.js');

module.exports = require('laravel-bundler')({
      entry: {
        app: './resources/js/app.js',
      },
      plugins: [
        new ReloadOnBladeChange()
      ],
      // Other webpack configs may go here
    },
    require('laravel-bundler/src/recipes/vue-2.js')
);

Update your package.json file

"scripts": {
    "dev": "webpack --progress --mode=development",
    "watch": "npm run dev -- --watch",
    "prod": "webpack --mode=production",
    "hot": "webpack serve --progress --hot"
},
"browserslist": [
    "> 2%",
    "not dead"
]  

Update your blade template

<!-- header -->
<link href="{{ mix('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">

<!-- footer -->
<script src="{{ mix('js/manifest.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ mix('js/vendor.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ mix('js/app.js') }}"></script>

Update your .gitignore file

/public/hot
/public/js
/public/css
/public/fonts
/public/images
/public/mix-manifest.json

Baked Features

• Webpack 5 and Babel 7 with @babel/preset-env
• Vue.js v2 support - Recipe
• Vue.js v3 support - Recipe
• CSS and SASS|SCSS support
• PostCSS loader preconfigured with autoprefixer and cssnano
• Font and image files handling
• Full HMR support for Vue, even for CSS :fire:
• Extract all css to a separate file (based on entry)
• Accepts css/scss file as entry
• Extract all vendor js to a separate file
• Clean output directories just before successful build
• mix-manifest.json compatible with Laravel's mix() helper
• Load environment variables from .env file that are prefixed with MIX_ :wink:
• Intelligent SourceMap based on mode
• Can auto-reload browser on blade template change (opt-in feature) :rocket:

Documentation

• Read the docs

Not in the plan

These features are not in the plan but can be enabled on demand :man_shrugging:

• Build Notification
• Copy files and folder
• Image compression
• CSS Preprocessors other than sass|scss
• Additional Babel plugins

License

MIT License