Error: EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/hot'

• Laravel Mix Version: 0.11.4 1
• Node Version (node -v): v6.10.3
• NPM Version (npm -v): 3.10.10.
• OS: Ubuntu Linux 16.04.2

Description:

Settings up a demo vue project with this description: https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/blob/master/docs/installation.md

With a “npm run dev” I get following error

fs.js:1103 return binding.unlink(pathModule._makeLong(path)); ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, unlink ‘/hot’ at Error (native) at Object.fs.unlinkSync (fs.js:1103:18) at File.delete (/home/mwesterm/Projects/laravel/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/File.js:98:16) at Mix.detectHotReloading (/home/mwesterm/Projects/laravel/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/Mix.js:82:20) at Mix.initialize (/home/mwesterm/Projects/laravel/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/Mix.js:40:14) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/mwesterm/Projects/laravel/webpack.config.js:35:5) at Module._compile (module.js:570:32) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-77-generic npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “run” “dev” npm ERR! node v6.10.3 npm ERR! npm v3.10.10 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! laravel@1.0.0 dev: cross-env NODE_ENV=development webpack --progress --hide-modules npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the laravel@1.0.0 dev script ‘cross-env NODE_ENV=development webpack --progress --hide-modules’.

Steps To Reproduce:

• Setup laravel-mix as described
• create an src/app.js-file
• “npm run dev”

[ITDeveloperDotUz]

This issue may happen if you are building project or running npm with other user than owner of the project directory. In my case there was a problem with nuxt compilation when I run npm run dev similar error appeared. my project was located at /var/www/project and owner of directory was nginx which is www-data. and I ran npm run dev with non-root user on phpstorm. When I re changed owner to my user it worked.

[LordZombi]

I got the same error. I have webpack.mix.js in root directory so I added

mix
    .setPublicPath('.')

to config and it helps.