Fresh Laravel 5.4项目，webpack无法正常工作

Question

So Laravel made their new fancy wrapper for webpack called Laravel mix.

According to the docs, you compile the frontend files by running npm run watch . The problem is that webpack doesn't detect any file changes. The only fix I've found is to add --watch-poll to the watch task config. The problem with that, is that:

it uses native file listeners to check for updates.

And the problem with that is that it uses like a 105% of your CPU. Do I really have to settle for this? Is there a smarter solution for this, or even a gulp equivalent task setup for Laravel's front-end files?

Haven't found an elegant way to do this with any gulp packages ( gulp-vueify just compiles components into js files ).

Is there any solution for Windows hosts?

Thanks

EDIT:

Using Windows 10 and Laravel's Homestead ( NodeJS v6.9.0 )

Answer 1

Weird that nobody found a solution.

I found something a bit janky, but it definitely does the job. Find the file DirectoryWatcher.js located in /node_modules/webpack/lib/ .

On line 57 , replace the ignored option with ignored: /node_modules/, . This means that any ignored option you initially pass through will get overwritten, but if I knew how to pass them in the right way, I wouldn't be doing it like this.

It still works fine. CPU usage is down and compilation time is reduced greatly.