Laravel - views folder getting deleted repeatedly

Question

Using Laravel Framework 5.5.0. The /var/app/current/storage/framework/views folder is constantly getting deleted.

Has anyone experienced this behavior or know why this would be happening?

*Also worth noting I attempted to circumvent this by setting the immutable flag on the directory but then my frontend stoped working.

I haven't experienced the folder being deleted, but the files get deleted when the blade template changes as it will parse the blade template to PHP templates again.. — George Hanson, Aug 15 '19 at 15:53
I've seen it happen after running a deployment. I'm deploying through AWS Elasticbeanstalk CLI. e.g. `eb deploy`. In that case I manually create. More frequently however it happens while the laravel app is up and running. — user857276, Aug 15 '19 at 20:55
@user857276 do you have a `.gitignore` file inside `views` folder? — Andriy Lozynskiy, Aug 16 '19 at 12:26
not inside the views folder but I do see one in its parent the storage/framework folder. — user857276, Aug 16 '19 at 18:35
@user857276 that's the problem. Can you show `.gitignore` file from project root? — Andriy Lozynskiy, Aug 16 '19 at 19:31

Andriy Lozynskiy · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16T20:20:04.963

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Looks like the folder is getting deleted because there is no files tracked by git inside.
Try to add .gitignore to the storage/framework/views with the following content:

*
!.gitignore

Then remove all gitigore rules for views folder in root .gitignore. You should be able to add this file to git index and commit. The problem should be fixed after next deploy.

See: How can I add an empty directory to a Git repository?

edited Aug 16 '19 at 20:20

answered Aug 16 '19 at 20:11

Andriy Lozynskiy

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Thanks Andriy! - I implemented your solution and am waiting to see if the folder gets removed while the application is running. – user857276 Aug 17 '19 at 03:18

Laravel - views folder getting deleted repeatedly

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