Laravel css using the elixir function not working properly on xampp
<p>I created a versioned css file using:</p>

<pre><code>elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.sass('demo.scss')
    .version('css/demo.css');
});
</code></pre>

<p>the file is under <code>public/build/demo-34f5737738.css</code>, according to the documentation the file should be linked this way:</p>

<p><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ elixir("css/demo.css") }}"</code> </p>

<p>however the stylesheet is not being applied when running in Xampp, but it's working when I start a server via command:  <code>php artisan serve</code>.
Any idea of why this is happening, or does Xampp needs a special setup before working with Laravel. Thanks!</p>