Using Laravel Elixir With WordPress
In this episode of Frontend Tips I'm going to show you how you can use Laravel Elixir in your WordPress workflow, and also how to use it with LiveReload.
If you ever used Laravel framework for development you must have heard about Laravel Elixir. It is an abstraction layer for gulp.js which makes writing your basic gulp tasks super easy. Since it was made for Laravel, it works out of the box with that framework.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have the power of Elixir on WordPress. Yes, it would you might say. And that is what we are going to be doing in this episode.
First we are going to install Laravel Elixir, then we are going to do some basic tasks with it, like compiling our .scss files. Then I’m going to show you how to use LiveReload with it. And finally how to prepare your files for production.
The result of all of this will be Elixir enabled theme which you can download from the link below.