Hot reloading fails then versioning enabled.

• Laravel Mix Version: 1.5.0
• Node Version (node -v): 8.7.0
• NPM Version (npm -v): 5.4.2
• OS: MacOS 10.12.6

Description:

Hot reloading crashes then versioning enabled.

Steps To Reproduce:

laravel new test cd test npm install

webpack.mix.js:

let mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'public/js')
   .sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/css')
   .version(); // **** added this line! ****

npm run hot

edit ExampleComponent.vue I have just added style block

<template>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
                <div class="panel panel-default">
                    <div class="panel-heading">Example Component</div>

                    <div class="panel-body">
                        I'm an example component!
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
    export default {
        mounted() {
            console.log('Component mounted.')
        }
    }
</script>

<style>
    body {
        background-color: blue;
    }
</style>

hit save and npm crashes with

 DONE  Compiled successfully in 171ms                                                                                         20:14:41

fs.js:653
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
                 ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/public/0.2c258ddd238157ae3d8e.hot-update.js'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:653:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:554:33)
    at File.read (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/File.js:180:19)
    at File.version (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/File.js:190:25)
    at Manifest.hash (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/Manifest.js:55:65)
    at manifest.forEach.file (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/plugins/CustomTasksPlugin.js:79:47)
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at CustomTasksPlugin.applyVersioning (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/plugins/CustomTasksPlugin.js:79:18)
    at Compiler.compiler.plugin.stats (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/laravel-mix/src/plugins/CustomTasksPlugin.js:12:22)
    at Compiler.applyPlugins (/Users/info/_sites/tut/test/node_modules/tapable/lib/Tapable.js:61:14)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @ hot: `cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ hot script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/info/.npm/_logs/2017-10-16T13_14_41_405Z-debug.log

without versioning seems to work just fine.

[Vasiliy-Bondarenko]

fixed for now with

// run versioning on production only
if (mix.inProduction()) {
    mix.version();
}

[ankurk91]

This has been answered tons of time, please search before creating new issue.