Okay, I’m starting to put some drafts of a Webpacker guide at GitHub - noelrappin/rails_javascript_documention_drafts – keeping it out of the Rails repo for convenience and flexibility, but the ultimate goal will be to submit this as a patch to Rails. Not much there yet… Feel free to submit change…

I’d love to see some guidelines on sprockets JS and Webpacker JS co-existing in older code bases, especially during a migration. I touched on this in the Big Ball of Sprockets Frustration thread and have since done a bit more digging. As I understand it now, it’s quite feasible to leave existing (l…

Yes, you can leave legacy JS in sprockets and write new stuff in Webpacker, there might be some problems if they needed to talk to each other, but including them separately should work. I’m fine to engage here for as long as the WTF May is going on, but I’m also open to issues on that repo as being…

Thanks! I’ll keep an eye on the repo and if I get some more valuable understanding of the process as I’m doing it I’ll aim to contribute. This area more than anything else is my major pain point in Rails and if it can be made better and easier for others, that’d make my frustration with it a bit mor…

I wrote up some detailed thoughts on migrating from Sprockets to Webpacker that may be helpful to you in the mean time and perhaps a source of info to adapt for the guide. How we switched from Sprockets to Webpacker - rossta.net

Thanks for taking on this effort! I don’t want to pull too many things in but would you think this effort should coordinate with whether to add Typescript types to Rails Javascript? They’re not exactly the same but I thought I’d mention it. [image] Typescript types for Javascript …

I would be completely up for adding TypeScript types, but I think that’s probably a separate effort. There are unofficial type definitions for some parts of the Rails JavaScript Expanded Universe. For the book I found types for ActionCable, ActiveStorage, and Turbolinks, but not UJS. But if UJS is g…

I’ve lived through this sort of sea change twice now – first with the abandonment of Prototype.js, and now with Sprockets. In both cases, the cusp time was the very worst. It’s impossible to overstate how confusing it is for me to try to use code that currently works (oh, let’s just name it: bootst…

The first PR in the Webpacker guide is at Moving toward a first pass by noelrappin · Pull Request #1 · noelrappin/rails_javascript_documention_drafts · GitHub – it’s just a start, please comment. More updates coming.

I’ve lived through this sort of sea change twice now – first with the abandonment of Prototype.js, and now with Sprockets. In both cases, the cusp time was the very worst. It’s impossible to overstate how confusing it is for me to try to use code that currently works (oh, let’s just name it: bootst…

I applaud this effort and hope to (read: will - I promise!) make contributions to it. However: it’s going to be very frustrating to develop documentation for features that are soon to be dramatically modified - especially when we don’t get told what will replace them. For that reason, I’ve logged …

JavaScript Documentation Coordination

A May Of WTFs

Noel_Rappin (Noel Rappin) May 25, 2020, 4:43pm 17

I’ve got a new update at GitHub - noelrappin/rails_javascript_documention_drafts that includes some feedback, some pull requests, and moves forward a bit. Comments and PRs welcome.

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