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Only if you plan to compile your css/js. You can just write it directly in /public/css for example and then import it manually with a <link tag (same with js)
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Does blank Laravel 9 project need to use npm?
I created a blank Laravel 9 project without running npm install yet, and looks like everything was working fine. But of course that's just an empty project
Then I ran npm install and it installed a lot of node_modules. Do I have to install them? What are the default node_modules used for?
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@Sinnbeck Oh I already see the headache of me trying to compile things - remember the other post about composer and blocked traffic.. it will be the same story with npm haha. I guess I'll just do it manually
**Although they do have special private repo for Node (Nexus)
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@Ligonsker Well if you can always download jquery or similar if you need it, and just load it from a script tag. Thats how it was done when I started coding :)
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@Sinnbeck haha that's what I'll do.
I am just confused because, there are so many modules installed in node_modules, so all of them are just maybe for vite to work properly?
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@Ligonsker Yeah just vite, axios (for ajax requests), lodash for mutating data and postcss for compiling css.
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