Laravel-mix: The manifest file gets overwritten (and invalidated) by running the tests

[barnabaskecskes]

FYI I have done the pre-checks, none of which has solved this problem.

• Laravel Mix Version: both 1.7.2 & 2.1.11 (npm list --depth=0)
• Node Version (node -v): 8.7.0
• NPM Version (npm -v): 5.8.0
• OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D102)

Description:

When using {{ mix('/css/app.css') }} for example in a Blade template, Laravel relies on the mix-manifest.json file to load the appropriate - potentially versioned - asset. Running the tests the manifest file gets overwritten and the application no longer works in the browser.

Note: I'm not even sure whether it's a Laravel Mix issue, so please point me to the right place if it is not.

Steps To Reproduce:

• clone the demo project: [email protected]:barnabaskecskes/laravel-mix-manifest.git
• install dependencies, as usual, and generate your app key
• run npm run dev and open your project in the browser and confirm you see the welcome page
• run npm run tests and reload the browser - you will see an error and that the page is broken

[nckg]

I was having the same problem running tests. This is my solution:

package.json

...
"test": "cross-env NODE_ENV=testing mocha-webpack --webpack-config webpack.config.js --require tests/JavaScript/setup.js tests/JavaScript/**/*.spec.js"
...

Notice that I have overwritten the laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js file with my own. It's basically a copy of the original file but with an added section:

webpack.config.js

...
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'testing') {
    Mix.manifest.refresh = () => {};
}
...

That fixed it for me 👌

[iraklisg]

I do confirm the issue using [email protected]

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