afternow
Hello
I in my umbrella I have an app with Phoenix 1.4.3. The App is setup with webpack and VUE JS (placed under assets/src). Everything work so far, but if I pack everything to a release (using Distillery), it doesn’t work anymore. It seems that the whole VUE stuff will not load. Before I create the release, I run “mix phx.digest”, but It seems it doesn’t work properly. When I delete everything in “priv/static” and run then the Digest command, it only creates a cache_manifest.json file with content “{“digests”:{},“latest”:{},“version”:1}”
I’ve read the documentation here mix phx.digest — Phoenix v1.8.8, but it didn’t helped me.
Is there anything else I have to consider?
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afternow
Thank you LastKobrakai for your answer. This helped me a lot!
For the deployment I run npm run deploy in the assets folder. This runs webpack and copy the data into the priv folder. Then mix phx.digest and finally mix release
LostKobrakai
mix phx.digestdoesn’t retrieve files from anywhere by default, but just act’s on what’s inpriv/static/already. Basically you’re in charge of getting the needed files intopriv/static/, but the default assets pipeline generated by phoenix does include code to ensure the compiled js/css/images will be copied there. This makes it seem like phoenix is copying the files, while it’s actually just a certain webpack configuration doing that, while everything else assumes stuff is inpriv/static/. Everything withinpriv/should automatically be included in distillery releases.