Outdated webpack.mix.js and package.json after fresh installation of Laravel 5.4.32 with Laravel Mix 1.0

• Laravel Mix Version: #.#.# (npm list --depth=0) that command doesn’t return anything after the fresh install of Laravel
• Node Version (node -v): 6.11.2
• NPM Version (npm -v): 4.2.0
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04 / Homestead on Windows10

Description:

I receive the following outdated content in both webpack.mix.js and package.json when I make a fresh install (inside Homestead’s Ubuntu) with the command below. According to the instructions here the content should be very different: https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/blob/master/docs/installation.md

Steps To Reproduce:

Following the instructions here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4 I just executed this command.

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webpack.mix.js

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

/*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Mix Asset Management
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |
 | Mix provides a clean, fluent API for defining some Webpack build steps
 | for your Laravel application. By default, we are compiling the Sass
 | file for the application as well as bundling up all the JS files.
 |
 */

mix.js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'public/js')
   .sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/css');

package.json

{
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "npm run development",
    "development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
    "watch-poll": "npm run watch -- --watch-poll",
    "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",
    "prod": "npm run production",
    "production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.16.2",
    "bootstrap-sass": "^3.3.7",
    "cross-env": "^5.0.1",
    "jquery": "^3.1.1",
    "laravel-mix": "^1.0",
    "lodash": "^4.17.4",
    "vue": "^2.1.10"
  }
}

[JeffreyWay]

@patlecat You seem to be experiencing issues related to faulty installs. Every error you’ve posted is related to something missing. It’s tough to debug these sorts of things, because Mix specifically lists them as dependencies. So there’s no code-related change I can make here.

Try to do a full reset:

rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json yarn.lock
npm cache clear --force
npm install

[JeffreyWay]

You don’t need to look at Mix’s webpack.config.js file. It’s a relative path to the src folder, which does exist.