Despite my protestations I'm seen as A Rails Expert within my organisation. And I've been fielding a ton of questions re. JS asset management, due to the switch to Webpacker.
Webpack is tremendously powerful and Webpacker is a helpful manager and wrapper. However, Webpack itself is also a Heath Robinson machine and trying to configure/debug it in many common cases immediately becomes a voyage into the arcane. Neither of these Rails Guides currently make any mention of Webpack or Webpacker: The Asset Pipeline - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html Working with JavaScript in Rails - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/working_with_javascript_in_rails.html I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that they should both deal with relevant aspects. The 6.0 upgrade guide (https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#using-webpacker) makes it seem that an upgrade is as simple as adding a gem and running a task, but for many existing applications it will be very far from trivial. None of this is meant to detract from what's already there - the Webpacker gem itself has many useful docs and a pretty good README, but they're mostly written from a different perspective to that of a _guide_. In particular there's often assumption of familiarity with Webpack, and many docs are thorough references rather than introductory guides. For all I know there may be a new guide in progress, but I couldn't see a PR or issue. It's something I'd be interested in at contributing to, if only for the selfish reason of reducing my own burden. -- Josh -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-core/193994bf-321b-451e-b4bb-2a4f1d23771b%40googlegroups.com.
