Most frontend tooling has a build step now, the build step depends on node/npm. It's much cleaner to separate the javascript/css out from sprockets and use webpacker instead. For example, you'd need this for css frameworks like tailwindcss that have a build step to generate only the css you need.
I'd disagree that "most" developers are making the mistake of installing node as root. Even homebrew doesn't do that. I agree there is tension due to the duplication of HTML generation on server side vs front-end side. It's unfortunate. I'd love it if we could have a full fledged SPA using only rails views/templates/logic. Otherwise it's forcing us to relegate rails to just an API, and do SSR in node instead. On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:33 AM Dominic Son <dominic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Rails has always been about best practices in web development, not what's > popular. If this were the case, why didn't rSpec make it as the default test > suite in Rails 2? > > Unfortunately now, Rails 6 will contain bloat. But more concerning, leave > most web developers vulnerable, as most will unknowingly install Node with > sudo, making node_modules owned by root, allowing for some fun executions.. > > For a moment, Sprockets allowed us to align our Javascript with our MVC > resources, it was maintainable, good design, that put Rails developers on the > same page. But starting with Rails 6, we will divide - some into Angular, > some into React, or Vue, or any of these other exotic front end frameworks > that repeat yourself in generating HTML. > > I guess we never really cared about being efficient. It turns out all we > cared about was job security. > > - Dominic > https://linkedin.com/in/dominicson > http://twitter.com/deezzer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
