February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 25m
English
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Chapter 7Playing Nice with JavaScript
We’re living in a JavaScript renaissance—no longer is it the whipping boy of language purists. Rails has embraced modern JavaScript technologies like React through its inclusion of Webpacker: a gem that brings webpack support.
As Rails developers, it’s important to be able to incorporate these technologies into our apps as needed, so our Docker environment needs to support us in that endeavor.
In this chapter, we’ll explore the options for working with JavaScript as part of our Rails development. We’ll also see how to include a React front end in our Rails app by installing and configuring Webpacker.
By the end of this chapter, our Docker-based development environment will play nice with all this modern ...