Laravel mix outputs the compiled assets in wrong directory

• Laravel Mix Version: 6.0.43
• Node Version: v16.15.0
• NPM Version: 8.5.5
• OS: Windows 10

Description:

webpack.mix.js file:

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

mix.sass('resources/sass/auth.scss', 'resources/css').options({
    processCssUrls: false
});

auth.scss file:

body {
    background-color: #fff;

    a, a:hover {
        color: green;
    }
}

The output of the auth.css file should be resources/css/auth.css. Instead it’s public/resources/css/auth.css.

However, the mix-manifest.json file outputs the corect path:

{
    "/resources/css/auth.css": "/resources/css/auth.css"
}

Steps To Reproduce:

Check above.

[kokoshneta]

It’s not just relative to the public path – it does absolutely everything, including chopping up paths and ignoring them entirely, to keep the output within the public path. Even something like css/../../resources is treated like public/resources.

This is an issue that has been reported many times here, never with an answer. It seems there is just no way to get Mix to interact with anything outside the public folder in any way, at all, ever, under any circumstances, except as an input path.

Going by earlier threads, it seems it used to be possible to copy or combine files outside the public path – but that’s no longer the case, so you can’t even copy a processed file to your resources folder anymore.

It is, plainly put, bewilderingly stupid. Of course the public folder should be the default output for processed assets; but saying that nothing processed can ever be placed anywhere but in the public folder under any circumstances is beyond opinionated, it’s plain wrong.

[lorvent]

@akaDJon I use either gulp, webpack or simple CLI scripts in package.json file, all depending on the project.

do you have any start kit for gulp? i am really want to use one but copying assets from node_modules to public folder…this has become my main issue, i can’t find a proper gulp package which can do that.

if you developed any starter-kit kind, please share.

thanks