mix.version() error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/css/app.css'

I’m using standalone version of laravel-mix@1.6.1 with npm@5.5.1 and I’m only compiling scss file:

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

mix
    .setPublicPath('/')
    .sass('scss/app.scss', 'css/')
    .sourceMaps()
    .version();

When run with version() it throws an error:

fs.js:646
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
                 ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/css/app.css'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
...

When I remove call to version() - it does compile without any issues, but of course, manifest does not have version parameter.

I also tried to changing the public path to the relative ./:

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

mix
    .setPublicPath('./')
    .sass('scss/app.scss', 'css/')
    .sourceMaps()
    .version();

but this has resulted with the same error (except for the path, which now was showing as absolute) and mix-manifest.json has cut first letter from the directory - still without the version present:

{
    "/ss/app.css": "/ss/app.css"
}

[andyblackwell]

since the public path is currently used straight in a regex, it’s the . that was causing errors for me. I was able to get around it for now by calling path.resolve() on the relative path.

mix.setPublicPath(path.resolve('./'))

[n7olkachev]

setPublicPath('public') may help you while dockerization with multi-stage builds, because mix will not set it if artisan file doesn’t exist.