Laravel-mix: Add folder to watch

[tiagomatosweb]

Hi, any idea how I would add other directories to be watched?

[JeffreyWay]

You can't right now, unless you copy our webpack.config.js file to your project root, and maintain it yourself.

[sebastiaanluca]

Any update to this issue? Perhaps using mix.webpackConfig() somehow?

[tiagomatosweb]

mix.browserSync({
   files: ['file.js']
});

It does the trick. More info https://browsersync.io/docs/options

[dharkness]

@tiagomatosweb doing this doesn't rebuild JS/CSS files from sources, nor does it even cause the browser to refresh. I'm watching .env and a SASS variables file that gets symlinked into the SASS build pipeline, and changing either one does nothing.

[tiagomatosweb]

Mm.. not sure! It was a workaround while ago. Do not remember if it recompile everything once those files set in browserSycn object are updated. Sorry mate.

[ajnozari]

Is there anything we can do about this? It is clearly still an issue as subfolders are not watched at ALL by npm run watch.

I have managers in resources/js/managers. If I move the files to root, they are watched, but if they are put into the managers subfolder they are completely ignored.

[tiagomatosweb]

I think the webpack HMR can be used/extended
https://webpack.js.org/guides/hot-module-replacement

[sadeghbarati]

mix.browserSync({
   files: ['file.js']
});

It does the trick. More info https://browsersync.io/docs/options

it's just reload and not trigger laravel-mix compiling