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Rolling a new Spark app with Laravel 5.4 I've noticed the public/css/app.js that is shipped with Spark is from a previous version compiled with Gulp.
Adding versioning and re-compiling will compile with WebPack/Mix. I've updated references of js/app.js to mix('js/app.js') to use versioned files and it now throws error:
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Vue
In fact, I noticed almost all of my scripts aren't working, even some basic jQuery.
Switching back to the shipped js/app.js fixes the problem.
As a result it looks like Spark is broken in 5.4 unless there is an easy fix? I'm willing to bet that the developers have not properly tested re-compiled assets using WebPack/Mix.
Anybody else ran into this problem?
I think I am experiencing the same problem. I have done fresh install of spark with laravel 5.4. New app keeps getting "Mix manifest does not exist" errors. Have tried updating various packages as suggested in other threads but it just doesn't work. I'm new to this framework so if anyone can help me out with a solution it would be much appreciated. I would like to start development on my app instead of getting Spark to run! Thanks in advance,
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