Laravel 5: Generating Public URLs to Elixir Compiled Assets With elixir

The elixir helper function can be used to get the path to a versioned Elixir file. The function accepts two arguments, the name of the $file to find the path for and the $buildDirectory to look in. By default, the $buildDirectory is set to build. The build directory is relative to the applications public directory (app/public).

#Signature

The signature of the elixir function is:

1function elixir(
2    $file,
3    $buildDirectory = 'build'
4);

#Example Use

Assuming the following simple gulpfile:

 1var elixir = require('laravel-elixir');
 2 
 3elixir(function(mix) {
 4    mix.sass('app.scss');
 5 
 6    // Version using the default configured build path.
 7    mix.version('css/app.css');
 8 
 9    // Version using a custom build path.
10    mix.version('css/app.css', 'public/build2');
11});

The path to the file versioned using the default configured build directory can be determined like this:

1elixir('css/app.css');

and would produce output similar to the following:

1/build/css/app-aa3c9d985b.css

Likewise, the path to the versioned file with the custom build directory can be determined by supplying an argument for $buildDirectory:

1elixir('css/app.css', 'build2');

which would produce output similar to the following:

1/build2/css/app-64f4edce94.css

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