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 --dev laravel-bundler

# npm
npm install --dev laravel-bundler 

Usage

Create a resources/js/app.js file like

// Import libraries, eg: Vue.js v2
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');

module.exports = require('laravel-bundler')({
        entry: {
            app: './resources/js/app.js',
        },
        plugins: [
            //
        ],
        // Other webpack configs may go here
    },
    // Incluce vue v2 recipe
    require('laravel-bundler/src/recipes/vue-2.js')
);

Update your package.json file

{
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "webpack --node-env=development --progress",
        "watch": "webpack watch --node-env=development --progress",
        "hot": "webpack serve --node-env=production --progress --hot",
        "prod": "webpack --node-env=production"
    },
    "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 postcss-preset-env
• 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) :wink:
• Webpack 5 inbuilt persistent cache across builds (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

Changelog

0.23.0

• Disable persistent cache feature, you have to opt-in manually from now.
• Update docs scripts section to use new webpack-cli flags