Webpacker is still opt-in for new Rails projects. But this might change. The JavaScript ecosystem is moving fast and new JavaScript frameworks are pushing customer’s expectations to higher levels. To use these frameworks with your Rails app, you had a few options:
npm
or yarn
into the asset pipeline yourselfI have been using rails-assets.org the past few years to keep my JavaScript dependencies up to date. It thought it was smart solution; instead of requiring individual developers to maintain Gem-wrappers, Gem wrappers are created on the fly by RailsAssets.org. It was smart and light weight on the developers side and worked perfectly with the Rails' Asset p…
I like Rails, but one thing that Rails falls short in is Javascript dependency management.
While Rails Assets, a proxy that allows for listing Bower packages in your Gemfile makes managing front-end libraries good enough for most front-end work, RailsAssets itself is mainly addressing asset management; it doesn’t allow for integrated management of additional development tools and binaries, useful for e.g. JavaScript-testing (besides the fact that Bower is kind of considered to be deprecated these days).
There are different ways of bundling Javascript, but since Rails 5.1, yarn
is the defacto choice for Rails.
You can install yarn either trough npm npm install -g yarn
, or if you’re on a mac, using homebrew: brew install yarn
. I chose the latter.
To prepare your rails project run rails yarn:install
.
There are [different testing fram…
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