Laravel-mix: Document setPublicPath and setResourceRoot

Created on 14 Mar 2019 · 3Comments · Source: JeffreyWay/laravel-mix

I was trying to get a slightly unusual file output setup working, and I didn't fully understand these two methods. In the official docs, setPublicPath is only mentioned twice, both times in examples without a thorough explanation of what it does, and setResourceRoot isn't mentioned at all.

It took me an hour of trial and error before I understood those functions (and their effects on CSS and other mix methods) well enough to configure my project correctly. It would be nice to have an official explanation in an easily-findable place in the official documentation.

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setResourcePath OR setResourceRoot are not mentioned anywhere on laravel-mix.com
setPublicPath is mentioned once in the FAQ but does not mention css, html or js appearing in root or wrong folder. setPublicPath is also mentioned under Installation but I found on Windows that I also needed mix.setResourceRoot and set to the same location or child folder of setPublicPath.

I think these would be very valuable if they were better explained and added to the docs.

nickwelsh1 on 30 Aug 2019

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I found this link in Google because I was struggling to work out the differences between setPublicPath and setResourcePath. Please document these.

For anyone else:

setPublicPath sets the base output path for any mix assets. Fonts, images etc.

setResourcePath sets the base output path in the generated assets relative to the public root (e.g. url('/css/fonts/font.tty'));

mix.setPublicPath('public_html/css');
mix.setResourceRoot('/css');

cjd118 on 19 Mar 2019

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