Config.publicPath cannot contain dot characters

[unclecheese]

• Laravel Mix Version: 1.7.2
• Node Version 8.9.2
• NPM Version 5.5.1
• OS: macOS 10.13

Description:

If Config.publicPath contains a dot character, e.g. setPublicPath('./'), this ends up getting parsed as unescaped regex in Manifest.noramlizePath(), which ends up truncating the first character of the path.

Steps To Reproduce:

webpack.mix.js

mix.setPublicPath('./')
  .scss('path/to/main.scss', 'path/to/dist.css');

Resulting manifest.json:

{
  '/ath/to/dist.css': '/ath/to/dist/css'
}

Granted, setting ./ as a public path is probably redundant in most cases (I removed it and it works fine), but it seems to me the mix API should be robust enough that it doesn't lead to bizarre results like this that leave devs digging through internals to figure out what configuration error they made.

[gummiforweb]

I have the same issue, having "./" in the public path works before 1.4.2 tho. Not sure which version does it stop working. The compiled file still go to the proper location, it's just the path in manifest is messed up.

In my case, i have to put './' as public path in order for it to work on windows because of this issue #1126 .

Related to this one commit:
9a0cbbc#diff-f969cfea02300f4d08f70dc524871166

[JeffreyWay]

Fixed.