Help Requested From Windows Users

Hey, everyone. I could use some help from Windows users. If you have the time, would you mind doing:

laravel new example
npm install
npm run dev

Did you get an error related to “node_modules not being an external command”, or anything along those lines? If so, can you try running a variant of this command?

node node_modules/cross-env/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js

This ends up being more complicated, because Yarn has this weird thing where it doesn’t symlink bin installs to node_modules/.bin. So, if you install Mix with NPM, no problem. But if you do it through Yarn, the NPM script can’t find webpack or webpack-dev-server.

So we updated the NPM script to specify the full path to these executable, but now some Windows users are having issues, and I’m not quite sure what the root of it is.

Any help would be appreciated! 😃

[cklmercer]

No error on my end.

[stephandesouza]

cross-env made a BC from version 3.1 to 3.2 and changed the “bin” folder from

node_modules/cross-env/bin

to

node_modules/cross-env/dist/bin

This issues when upgrading yarn/npm, or a clean install with npm. A clean install of yarn dont make version upgrade, so it read the version from yarn.lock.

So might the package.json edited to persist this change:

 "scripts": {
    "dev": "node node_modules/cross-env/dist/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch": "node node_modules/cross-env/bin/dist/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch-poll": "node node_modules/cross-env/dist/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --watch-poll --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "hot": "node node_modules/cross-env/dist/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "production": "node node_modules/cross-env/dist/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
  },