Building for production #

Running the vite build command will generate production-ready assets through Rollup.

Build path #

By default, assets are generated in /public/build. When using Laravel Mix, they were usually put in the /public directory directly.

With Vite, this is bad practice because the build directory is emptied at build-time. It also has the benefits of making the assets more organized and easier to ignore through .gitignore.

If you wish, you can change the build path. See the relevant documentation.

ASSET_URL environment variable #

When bundling, the ASSET_URL environment variable is used as the base path for every generated asset.

This is particularly useful when assets are stored in a cloud-based storage such as S3, which is the case with Laravel Vapor.