Yeah, im a front-end dev using webpack since 1.0, so my view is different to solo rails devs that are treating frontend as bootstrap-alike thing.
Having said that, my recommendation was only to companies, who already use webpack with success, and considering adding webpacker. This was a nightmare excercise, a lot of time, sweat (ergo, money) wasted to just remove this complexity that turned out to slow down assets packaging and was obscuring other problems, that were visible (ergo, possible to fix) after removal.
For someone who just wants to START new rails app and has backend background, going webpacker is probably their best bet. Having said that, i think, if there is one tool from frontend toolbelt that is worth learning, that would be webpack. It truly can make or break your frontend performance. Ive seen both.
Also, webpack in 2020 (or rather, since version 3 or 4, which is couple years old) is very easy to start with, and there is plenty of boilerplates to just start with it without deep knowledge.
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Yeah, im a front-end dev using webpack since 1.0, so my view is different to solo rails devs that are treating frontend as bootstrap-alike thing.
Having said that, my recommendation was only to companies, who already use webpack with success, and considering adding webpacker. This was a nightmare excercise, a lot of time, sweat (ergo, money) wasted to just remove this complexity that turned out to slow down assets packaging and was obscuring other problems, that were visible (ergo, possible to fix) after removal.
For someone who just wants to START new rails app and has backend background, going webpacker is probably their best bet. Having said that, i think, if there is one tool from frontend toolbelt that is worth learning, that would be webpack. It truly can make or break your frontend performance. Ive seen both.
Also, webpack in 2020 (or rather, since version 3 or 4, which is couple years old) is very easy to start with, and there is plenty of boilerplates to just start with it without deep knowledge.