I’ve read through numerous previous threads re: this topic, but it seems I’m running into a slightly different issue.
After running grunt build on my local development environment, I see the manifest.json created in the assets directory, but for some reason it’s not being picked up my Git?
I realize this is more of a Git question than a Roots question, but any assistance is greatly appreciated.
That’s because the file is Git ignored: https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/.gitignore#L9
We do this by default because in general build artefacts/compiled production assets shouldn’t be committed to source control. If you want to, just remove that line above.
What is this file for? And why is it only created on grunt build? It was missing after a fresh roots npm install
It keeps track of cache busting strings which are appended to CSS and JS asset filenames.
See here: https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/Gruntfile.js#L118
and here: https://github.com/roots/roots/blob/master/lib/scripts.php#L30