The theme does not work in the Bedrock project

[Sergey98Am]

I have a WordPress Bedrock project, but this theme does not work there. In another WordPress project without Bedrock, it is working.

I get these style.css and script.min.js 404 errors.

Is there a way to use this theme in the Bedrock project?

[gregsullivan]

Hi Sergey—Thanks for posting this!

I've never used Bedrock before, so I can't confirm one way or another. I don't remember hearing from anyone saying they were using it with _tw.

Can you confirm that you've run npm run dev (or watch or prod)? I just want to confirm the script.min.js and style.css files have definitely been created.

Barring that, I would need to set up Bedrock and see what I found during that process. I won't have time to do that in the immediate future, but I can keep this open and make an attempt when possible!

[Sergey98Am]

@gregsullivan. Yes, I have run these commands, there are script.min.js and style.css files

[gregsullivan]

Great, thank you! I'll try to get Bedrock set up locally, and I'll note anything I find here.

[Sergey98Am]

Thanks in advance

[kyle-cyberprairie]

@Sergey98Am is this because of the file structure? I am using _tw with Bedrock and it is working for me. I had to set a symlink for my theme, so /my-theme exists on the project root, which web/app/themes/my-theme points to.

[gregsullivan]

I'm revisiting this tonight, and I believe agreeing with this answer is as confident as I can be in terms of the best approach:

@Sergey98Am is this because of the file structure? I am using _tw with Bedrock and it is working for me. I had to set a symlink for my theme, so /my-theme exists on the project root, which web/app/themes/my-theme points to.

A couple of points:

• My understanding is that Bedrock users are likely to be deploying the same structure from development to production. With that being the case, keeping the theme repository from _tw in the project root and symlinking ./my-theme/theme/ to ./web/app/themes/my-theme would be preferable in that you're only keeping the deployable portion of _tw in the public folder.
• I continue not to have personal experience with Bedrock, so I can't state definitively that symlinking within a Bedrock project isn't discouraged for other reasons. But I don't foresee any issues with that approach, and I still use symlinking without issue on local development environments for some if the _tw-based sites that I build.

I'm going to convert this to a discussion, and I'd be happy to revisit this further if anyone has questions about or issues with this in the future.