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Modern Front-End Development for Rails
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Modern Front-End Development for Rails

by Noel Rappin
June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h 35m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Configuring Webpacker

A Rails 6.1 app installs Webpacker as part of the default app creation; however, you need to make some configuration changes up front to install Hotwire, and make sure that CSS and TypeScript are properly integrated.

Webpacker is a Rails gem, so the default install puts it into your Gemfile:

 gem "webpacker"

As I write this, Webpacker 6.0 is in beta. This book uses Beta 6—hopefully it will be released by the time you read this.

Webpacker creates a number of local configuration files, including the package.json manifest of JavaScript libraries to use, and then retrieves those JavaScript libraries using the Yarn package manager.[24]

The default installation of Webpacker does not integrate with TypeScript or with CSS libraries. ...

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