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Raheel Shan @raheelshan

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...