June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h 35m
English
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Integrating Webpacker with Frameworks
Once upon a time, when this book was young and Hotwire was just a gleam in DHH’s eye, Webpacker included installation scripts for many different frameworks and tools. The Webpacker team has abandoned that approach, presumably on the grounds that keeping up to date with nearly a dozen different JavaScript tools can be exhausting. (I can relate.) Also, most tools provide webpack instructions now, and those can be used directly.
However, there are some special cases:
- CoffeeScript
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If you install the correct loader, yarn add coffeescript coffee-loader, Webpacker will compile .coffee files using the CoffeeScript compiler.[66]
- CSS
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You need to install several packages for CSS support: yarn add css-loader mini-css-extract-plugin ...