How to exclude .php files from being watched by laravel mix

Hello folks, I'm building a SPA application with laravel, and using laravel mix mostly for frontend files compilation. After launch "yarn run hot", I would like to exclude from being watched server side files (.php), becasuse every time I make a change in the backend, the whole page is reloaded. Even, after the latest windows update, doing a simple ajax call to the server could triger a "[Browsersync] Reloading Browsers..." event in my "yarn run hot" console.

I suppose that excluding .php files from being watched by laravel mix would help me, but I don't know how. Perhaps it is a webpack configuration....

Thanks in advance.

LiamHammett

7 years ago

Best Answer

Level 18

The default BrowserSync configuration file in Laravel Mix includes certain paths to be watched, which includes some PHP files.

https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/blob/v2.1/src/components/Browsersync.js#L46-L51

You can override individual configuration options by passing an object to the mix.browserSync(...) method

mix.browserSync({
    proxy: '...',
    files: [ 'public/js/**/*.js', 'public/css/**/*.css' ],
})

2 likes

reynerhl

7 years ago

Level 4

Thanks so much @LiamHammett . I can finally work without seeing my browser reload unnecessarily.

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