Deleting stale hashed files

[juddlyon]

Hi Ben!

Thanks for creating this, I needed a replacement for laravel-mix-versionhash. Gonna check out your Agency set up soon.

I'm not able to delete the stale hashed files with force set to true in delOptions. Here's the output with debug turned on:

Manifest found: '../web/dist/mix-manifest.json'
Renamed '../web/dist/js/app.js' to '../web/dist/js/app.b1e46e01a3c3a84c3cd6.js' (delOptions '{"force":true}')
Renamed '../web/dist/css/app.css' to '../web/dist/css/app.36b4410866e3e76ee304.css' (delOptions '{"force":true}')
Finished updating '../web/dist/mix-manifest.json' with the new filenames:
 {
  '/js/app.js': '/js/app.b1e46e01a3c3a84c3cd6.js',
  '/css/app.css': '/css/app.36b4410866e3e76ee304.css'
}

The built files from previous runs are still there. Not a biggie but I'd like to nuke them.

The invocation:

if (mix.inProduction()) {
  mix.version();
  mix.then(() => {
    convertToFileHash({
      publicPath: '../web/dist',
      manifestFilePath: '../web/dist/mix-manifest.json',
      delOptions: { force: true },
      debug: true
    });
  });
}

Here are the versions I'm using:

  "devDependencies": {
    "laravel-mix": "^6.0.11",
    "laravel-mix-make-file-hash": "^2.2.0",
    "laravel-mix-purgecss": "^6.0.0",
    "postcss": "^8.2.4",
    "resolve-url-loader": "^3.1.2",
    "sass": "^1.32.5",
    "sass-loader": "^8.0.2"
  }

Please advise. Thanks!

[maksakoviliya]

I have the same problem? Is there a desicion?

[matejsvajger]

For those looking for a solution: I just installed rimraf and clean the public dir at the start of webpack.mix.js with:

rimraf('public/**/app.*.*', () => {});
rimraf('public/**/vendor.*.js', () => {});
rimraf('public/**/manifest.*.js', () => {});

*edit: could also be simplified as

rimraf('public/**/{app,vendor,manifest}.*.*', () => {});

[juddlyon]

@matejsvajger Thanks for sharing your solution, rimraf will do the job well!

[gmeligio]

I use laravel-mix-clean to delete all files and relay on regeneration with a configuration like this:

mix.clean({
    cleanOnceBeforeBuildPatterns: [
      '**/*',
      '!robots.txt',
      '!images/**',
      '!favicon*.ico',
    ],
  });