Laravel Elixir depending on environment

It is possible to say Laravel Elixir it has to use different extensions depending the environment?

In the local environment I want to start the BrowserSync-extension, but on the production server (forge-managed) I don't want to execute the BrowserSync task. This would start an process which I have to kill manually via ssh-login...after every deploy :(

pedroborges

11 years ago

Level 6

The docs recommends that you use the production flag when running Gulp in production: gulp --production.

Internally, Elixir defines the variable below to check the environment and modify the behaviour of certain recipes:

var inProduction = elixir.config.production;

You could add the above line to your Gulpfile and do the check yourself.

var elixir = require('laravel-elixir');

var inProduction = elixir.config.production;

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.sass("bootstrap.scss");

    if (! inProduction) {
        // Do the BrowserSync stuff…
    }
});

I haven't tested this myself, so please let me know if it works.

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