JS files don't build in development mode

I may be missing something here but I’m trying to get my JS to bundle on the yarn run blendid command. It builds fine when I run yarn run blendid -- build. I’m assuming this has something to do with the HMR, but b/c I’m using VM and browswersync in proxy mode I’m ok with the JS file reloading. It just does nothing currently.

Below is my task-config.js

module.exports = {
  html        : false,
  images      : true,
  fonts       : true,
  static      : true,
  svgSprite   : true,
  ghPages     : false,
  stylesheets : true,

  javascripts: {
    entry: {
      // files paths are relative to
      // javascripts.dest in path-config.json
      app: ["./app.js"]
    },
    publicPath: './public/javascripts'
  },

  browserSync: {
    proxy: 'outside.dev',
    files: ['./public/**/*'],
    watchOptions: {
      poll: true,
      aggregateTimeout: 300
    }
  },

  watch: {
    gulpWatch: {
      usePolling: true,
      interval: 1000,
      binaryInterval: 2500
    }
  },

  production: {
    rev: false
  }
}

[hjblokland]

When using browsersync at localhost:3000 Drupal will see the hot reloaded js file and auto reloads the page when you change something in the src/javascripts folder

[olets]

For the general “why am I not seeing processed JS files in my build directory” question, see https://github.com/vigetlabs/blendid/issues/494#issuecomment-343545781 (thanks @HJ-b!)

Without additional information, it sounds like the other problems were likely related to Browersync configuration or paths.

@nilsenpaul there isn’t currently a way to override the JS task. Feel free to open a new issue if that’s something you think would be useful and we can discuss

@guusvandewal glad you had success! Are you saying that ./profiles/PROFILENAME/ is necessary in the javascripts.publicPath? And was

provide: {
  $: "jquery",
  jQuery: "jquery"
},

necessary for Drupal 8? The rest of your configuration is as in https://github.com/vigetlabs/blendid/blob/master/extras/drupal/config/task-config.js. We may need to add or document the jquery requirement.