laravel-mix scripts and files changes not watched

• Laravel Mix Version : 0.8.4
• Node Version (node -v) : 7.6.0
• NPM Version (npm -v) : 4.2.0
• OS: MacOS Sierra 10.12.3

Description:

I only use laravel-mix to copy, concat, minify and version my assets and everything is working fine when I launch commands like npm run dev or npm run production. I use the mix.copy, mix.sass, mix.scripts and mix.version (only for production) features of laravel-mix.

When I used the watch feature with elixir, sass changes, scripts sheet changes and file changes were detected and triggered a task execution. With laravel-mix, sass sheets changes are well detected but scripts sheets changes are not and neither files ones.

Is this a normal behaviour and is there a way to track scripts sheets changes and files changes ?

Steps To Reproduce:

npm run watch or npm run watch-poll

[sburina]

Just to add my two cents, in case someone stumble upon this issue and can’t resolve it even with the newest laravel-mix, webpack, node and npm. Spent the whole day banging my head, and FINALLY:

https://webpack.github.io/docs/troubleshooting.html#file-saves-in-webstorm-don-t-trigger-the-watcher

When using the JetBrains WebStorm IDE, you may find that saving changed files does not trigger the watcher as you might expect. Try disabling the safe write option in the settings, which determines whether files are saved to a temporary location first before the originals are overwritten: uncheck File > Settings… > System Settings > Use “safe write” (save changes to a temporary file first)

Please note: there’s no output in the console, but it works - check your resulting files.

[thibaultvanc]

it works for me after : sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768 in the console Hope it’s help