Front-end development

You only need this if you change Vue, CSS, or JS. Production PHP-only tweaks do not require Node.

Tooling

1. Install Node.js
2. npm install --global yarn
3. From the ProTask application root:

yarn install
yarn dev      # watch
yarn build    # production (includes SSR build as configured in package.json)

yarn build runs vite build && vite build --ssr.

If you stop the yarn dev process, Vue edits will not hot-reload.

Backend cache

After route or config changes:

php artisan optimize && php artisan cache:clear && php artisan route:cache && php artisan view:clear && php artisan config:cache && php artisan route:clear

On a dev machine, php artisan optimize:clear is often enough so you are not fighting cached config.

Composer

If PHP extensions or the platform version changed:

composer update

Use that deliberately; it updates the lockfile.

This documentation site is separate: _documentation with npm run dev. See that folder’s README.