Common Solutions That Didn't Work: A Hidden Cause In Laravel Projects
Common solutions failed to resolve Laravel's Unable to locate file in Vite manifest error. The actual cause was a missing vendor/lakm/laravel-comments/resources/css/app.css file due to an unrun installation command: php artisan commenter:install.
Recently, while working on a Laravel project, I encountered an issue that took quite some effort to resolve: Despite verifying that resources/css/app.css was indeed present in the correct location, Laravel kept throwing this following error. Unable to locate file in Vite manifest: resources/css/app.css I implemented all the common solutions, but nothing worked—until I discovered an unexpected cause. Common Solutions That Didn’t Work Before I found the actual fix, I tried several typical solutions: Clearing and rebuilding Vite: Checking vite.config.js for correct input paths. Ensurin...