![]() ![]() Once installed, click on the extension icon. Now, install the Live Reload Chrome extension on your browser. mix.webpackConfig(Īs above, add the snippet below to your file: will listen to all changes in your codebase. Ensure this is added at after your mix.js() code lines. Then next, add the code snippet below to your file: var LiveReloadPlugin = require('webpack-livereload-plugin'). In your application directory's terminal, run the code: npm install -save-dev Alas, I was led to this amazing plugin: " LiveReload" - a Laravel Mix plugin that allows for live-reloading your Laravel application using Webpack.Įnough of the background! Let's dive straight in. ![]() My inquiry (just as probably yours) led me to "googling" " live-reload laravel on browser". Migration guide from v3 to v4 can be found here. This page describes the options that affect the behavior of webpack-dev-server (short: dev-server) version > 4.0.0. See the development guide to get started. Little did I know there was a live-reload feature support in Laravel until this moment. webpack-dev-server can be used to quickly develop an application. So, this is going to be as straightforward as possible. ![]() "serve": "webpack-dev-server -mode development"Īnd voilà! We can change our index.How to live-reload your Laravel Application. The final thing to do is to setup a run script to call the dev server. js file empty and we need to reference it in the HTML file in order to get the link to Webpack and setup the live reloading. Let’s create a couple of source files to get our project up and running. Other than that we can configure the port and other options here and setting the publicPath allows us to reference that in-memory bundle that Webpack will create for us. Here we must either disable the hot option for hot module replacement to be false or the watchContentBase option for watching static files (like HTML) to true in order for the live-reload server to work. The second part of the config is all about configuring the webpack-dev-server. ![]() This is only really needed for when we build our project with Webpack however this gives us an opportunity to set the filename for the bundle which Webpack actually uses to create an in-memory version of the bundle which we can use with our dev server. This is usually the bit where most people (including myself!) start getting confused with all the myriad of options available to use with Webpack.įirst we set our output path and filename for the bundle that Webpack will create. const path = require('path') ĬontentBase: path.join(_dirname, 'src'), Then we need create a file and provide some configuration for Webpack. npm install -save-dev webpack wepack-cli webpack-dev-server Then add the Webpack dependencies to bundle and reload our app. mkdir webpack-live-reload & cd webpack-live-reload TL DR You can get a copy of the files from the GitHub repo I setup at So in this article, i’ll take you through step-by-step the process I used to setup up a dead simple live reload project with Webpack using the webpack-dev-server package. There are already lots of NPM packages that will give you a simple HTTP server with live reload but I wanted to do this with Webpack as ultimately i’ll be using this to bundle and build my app. So when I was starting a new project the other day I wanted to get a live reload setup in place so that whilst updating my source files, the app updates as if by magic straight away in the browser. In this article, we’ll setup a dead simple web project that has live reload using Webpack. ![]()
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