[LRUG] resolving JS dependencies on deploy

[Bruno Bonamin]

Well if it's just a single gem, I guess you could download it (when
rails-assets.org is back up), repackage it and upload it to Github. Finally
you could reference it from your Gemfile.

2015-11-19 16:50 GMT+00:00 Tom Armitage <tom at infovore.org>:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Mark Burns <markthedeveloper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > onerous npm-derived asset preprocessing
>>
>> I'm curious about this statement.
>> Is it that you are loathe to have to put in the groundwork now for little
>> benefit or that the asset pipeline is less onerous?
>>
>
> Well, it’s that I have a working application that’s entirely fine, and
> which utilises the asset pipeline, and I am wary of the big leaky
> abstraction of “adding a completely different serverside platform” into the
> mix just to pull down an external dependency. I tend to think that “just
> install npm” is a significant dependency, not a trivial one. But it’s
> onerous because of the unnecessary change it introduces at this phase, and
> because of the scale of the dependency.
>
>
>> IMHO the tooling around the node ecosystem feels a lot more modern and
>> suited to the task than the cludgy asset pipeline.
>> Things like webpack, ES6, requirejs etc are fantastic for modern js
>> development.
>>
>
> Well, yes, although again, I’ve been getting on fine! There’s only one
> component of this application that resembles a single-page application; the
> rest is fairly straightforward transactional web pages. I’m well aware my
> front-end JS could probably be brought up to the mark in terms of
> trendiness - and I like the principle of ES6, if not the transpiler. I
> guess I’m being conservative in introducing new ideas to the project when
> most of it works fine as it is.
>
> Hence trying to find a solution beyond “replace your entire front-end
> tooling!”
>
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Bruno Bonamin.
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