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i. Not sure whats happened as this started to occur this morning after no changes were made.
All was working last night as I was testing and all was working, but this morning I now get: Uncaught TypeError: window.Alpine.cloneNode is not a function.
I reverted back to earlier git commits to see where it broke, but even the earliest commits have the same issue which I know it was all working then.
Theres nothing in the logs and I just can't figure this one out.
Any ideas ?
So i found the error. Not sure why this was the case, the file was unchanged from the start.
In app.js
From this:
import './bootstrap';
window.Alpine = Alpine
Alpine.start()
to this:
import './bootstrap';
// window.Alpine = Alpine
// Alpine.start()
And it all worked as it should.
@skoobi If I remove these two lines from app.js and I don't have a livewire component on some page then alpine.js is not started, only where I have a livewire component is alpine.js working.
I am cloning the first example of Livewire 3 docs (Filtering users with an input text field) and the component was not re-rendering after updating the $search property. After updating \resources\js\app.js to... everything is working as expected.
import './bootstrap';
import Alpine from 'alpinejs';
//
// window.Alpine = Alpine;
// Alpine.start();
I experienced the same error, running livewire 3 with laravel with docker locally
Uncaught TypeError: window.Alpine.cloneNode is not a function
fixed it with
sail npm run dev
It seems to be a problem with the vite package, the alpine js provided by livewire includes cloneNode but the vite package does not.
// in app.js
console.log('Import Alpine', Alpine.version, Object.keys(Alpine).sort());
console.log('Window Alpine', window.Alpine.version, Object.keys(window.Alpine).sort());
Alpine.start();
I checked the file from node_module and found that the result of downloading the alpinejs package does not contain the cloneNode
resolve livewire.laravel.com/docs/upgrading#including-via-js-bundle
link1: github.com/livewire/livewire/discussions/6238
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