Interactions between React on Rails and Sprockets

[justin808]

Summary of issues related to React on Rails, and potentially skipping all or parts of the Asset Pipeline:

Two approaches to removing the Asset Pipeline

• PR: Ability to work without sprockets Ability to work without sprockets #671
• Possible Simplified Rails Configuration without Asset Pipeline Possible Simplified Rails Configuration without Asset Pipeline #696

Issues with Double Minification

• Issue: Mixing Asset Pipeline Minification and Webpack 2 tree shaking breaks Mixing Asset Pipeline Minification and Webpack 2 tree shaking breaks #699

Resources

• Article Replacing the Rails Asset Pipeline with Webpack and Yarn
• Gem mipearson/webpack-rails

[justin808]

See rails/webpacker#139. Very soon, we won't be putting Webpack assets through the rails asset pipeline!

[justin808]

Fixed with 8.0.0! 🎉