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Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1
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Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1

by Sam Ruby, David B. Copeland, Dave Thomas
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Serving CSS via Webpack

We’ve been writing CSS in files located in app/assets/stylesheets. Rails will find whatever css files are there, bundle them all up together, and make the combined CSS available to your views. If you want to use modern CSS tools or techniques, such as CSS modules or Post CSS,[126][127] it’s not easy or possible to use them with the CSS that Rails serves up.

The part of Rails that handles CSS is called Sprockets, and while new gems are always being produced to give Sprockets new abilities, the state of the art in CSS is part of the JavaScript ecosystem and available via Webpack. Prior to Rails 5.1, setting up Webpack was extremely difficult. But as we learned in Chapter 13, Task H: Entering Additional Payment Details ...

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