How to force rebuild an extension

lbaumann

I have made some modifications to an extension I have installed on my Flarum installation (the extension is mprove/flarum-ext-auth0 if that's relevant). I made the changes to a file which was located at: [flarum directory]/vendors/mprove/flarum-ext-auth0/js/forum/main.js.

These edits were simple user interface changes. However, the changes are not appearing in the live version. I assume that the javascript in main.js needs to be copied to some other directory, and that is why the changes I made are not propagating. I have tried the following things:

clear the flarum php cache
restart apache
disable and re-enable this and other plugins
clear the composer cache
clear my browser's cache

However the changes I made are still not making it through to the live version.

How does one go about editing plugins in this way?

Thanks for your help and for developing such an awesome open-source project!

luceos

Editing extensions like this is not wise because:

Files in the vendor directory should not be edited. This directory holds all dependencies. You should be able to delete the directory at whim and just run composer install to get an installation that behaves exactly the same as before.
Whenever a new version is released your changes will be gone.

So let's clarify how you would edit those files:

The main.js files is used by Gulp to create a dist/extension.js file, this file is actually taken along in the compilation process.
You need to install node, npm, run npm install and then node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js to create a new extension.js.
Now this won't you any good in the long run, so you'd either need to fork the package or send in a PR.