#webpacker — Public Fediverse posts

🗺️ Journey through Rails' asset handling evolution - from #webpacker to importmaps.

We retrace this story in our latest blog post, by Staff Engineer Ariel Juodziukynas: https://www.fastruby.io/blog/the-assets-pipeline-history.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Organic&utm_campaign=Blogpromo&utm_term=assetpipeline&utm_content=Graphic

#Rails #WebDevelopment #AssetManagement #Sprockets #Webpacker

Please send help, spending time trying to get a legacy rails app up and running from…..

2021 🙃

Outdated Webpacker? ✅
Outdated node-gyp? ✅
Random JS crap going on? ✅
Tried to switch to esbuild and avoid webpack nonsense - without success? ✅

I hasten to add, not my app, just attempting to help someone out - what a crock

#RubyOnRails #webpacker #javascript #hellhole

In fact, AFAIK #Sass was the very first thing with any concept like that… #Webpacker, #Typescript, #PostCSS, #Less, and all are children of #SassCSS !