Use pure gulp instead of elixir in laravel application

Question

I'm very new with laravel, previously I was on node.js mostly.

We use react with laravel in a new project. I'm confused when I saw this file https://github.com/eriksape/laravel-react-hot-loader/blob/master/gulpfile.js

Why use elixir in gulpfile.js? I thought we can do the gulp way like

gulp.task('watch', function() {
    browserSync({ 
        proxy: 'localhost:8000',
        middleware: [
        webpackDevMiddleware(bundler, {
          publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,

          stats: { colors: true }

        }),

        webpackHotMiddleware(bundler)
      ]
    });
}); 

But I did tried to use pure gulp, the hot reloading did not work, webpack will bundle everything from scratch again. I wonder what role does elixir is doing here.

Answer 1

If you don't use Elixir, then you don't have to worry about anything.

Just remove references to it and ad your gulp dependencies in your package.json file, and then execute gulp as you would normally.