php artisan native:serve no response after running

[lsswear]

Versions

php: 8.2.9

composer:2.8.5

node:22.14.0

laravel:11.42.1

Run time problem

PS F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3> php .\artisan native:serve

Starting NativePHP dev server…

Fetching latest dependencies…

Installing NPM dependencies (This may take a while)...

Installing NPM dependencies using the npm package manager...

Starting NativePHP app
Copying app icons...

App icons copied
Running the dev script with npm...

Fetching latest dependencies…

PS F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3> php -v

Problem

Why is there no application compilation?

[lsswear]

F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Process\PendingProcess.php

After line number 234 add code var_dump($this->command).

public function run(array | string | null $command = null, ? callable $output = null) {
$this->command = $command ?: $this->command;
var_dump($this->command);
…………………………
}

I debug the run and output the results
PS F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3> php .\artisan native:serve

Starting NativePHP dev server…

Fetching latest dependencies…

Installing NPM dependencies (This may take a while)...

Installing NPM dependencies using the npm package manager...

Fetching latest dependencies…

string(11) "npm install"

Starting NativePHP app

Copying app icons...

App icons copied

Running the dev script with npm...

Fetching latest dependencies…

string(11) "npm run dev"
PS F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3>

Problem

What causes to end after the "npm run dev" command running.

[PeteBishwhip]

Hey! 👋

What happens if you just run npm run dev yourself in your terminal? What does the output look like?

[lsswear]

PS F:\file\my\code\php_study\nativephp\test3> npm run dev

dev
vite

VITE v6.1.0 ready in 841 ms

➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/
➜ Network: use --host to expose
➜ press h + enter to show help

LARAVEL v11.42.1 plugin v1.2.0

➜ APP_URL: http://localhost

Command running end

The interface remains in the command line window.

But the url http://localhost show "This website cannot be accessed"。

The url http://localhost:5173/ is normal。

[PeteBishwhip]

Perfect. That shows npm works well. How about running composer native:dev?

[lsswear]

Same as php .\artisan native:serve

I know is run php .\artisan native:serve & npm run dev.

But the desktop applications failed to run…… how to develop it……

[PeteBishwhip]

Is this a brand new application? Have you added your own code yet? If it fails to run, it typically indicates a fatal error whilst trying to launch.

[lsswear]

There are no error messages and no logging

[PeteBishwhip]

Is this a brand new application?

What happens if you create a new application and run immediately?

cd /your/documents/directory # Change this to you change directory to where you'd like to run a test
composer create-project laravel/laravel TestApp
cd TestApp
php artisan native:install
npm install
php artisan native:serve

Let me know what happens?

[lsswear]

Is runing!!!
Before installing laravel through "laravel new example-app", framework version is 11.42.1.
Use "composer create-project laravel/laravel TestApp",framework version is 11.6.1.
The npm install command is not used before.
Thank you very much。 😊🙇‍

[PeteBishwhip]

Great. Glad I could help. I doubt the laravel version made a difference but the steps in order certainly did I suspect.

Make sure you also run npm run build before php artisan native:build when you do Build an application for distribution or you'll find errors where compiled assets are missing :)

[simonhamp]

This feels like another case where having some sort of build process customisation would be handy

Maybe some config that lets you define pre- and post-build commands to run?

[PeteBishwhip]

I'll make a card for that. I'd certainly be happy to put together a PoC on that once the current BuildCommand monolith PR is merged.