When Rails 6 released I went out to: [image] Working with JavaScript in Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides Working with JavaScript in RailsThis guide covers the options for integrating JavaScript functionality into your Rails application, including the options you have for using external Java…

FWIW there is an issue on this from March, though I don’t think anyone has taken it up [guides] Explain how to use Webpacker for Javascript, or mention it exists · Issue #38767 · rails/rails · GitHub It seems that the edge guide has already been updated to mention webpacker’s dependencies in at lea…

<3 thanks for reporting this! You’re not the only person who’s brought this up, and we’re coordinating efforts to fix the situation in this thread: Sprockets abandonment . If you have any time or energy to help out, then I’m sure it would be welcome!

My experience here is that this is definitely a pain point. I have grown to love developing with rails-ujs, turbolinks and stimulus, but its been a bumpy road getting there (whereas I’d describe learning say, ActiveRecord, as relatively smooth). A stackoverflow question I asked and answered in 2016 …

It seems like a lot of the activity on the Sprockets abandonment thread is about configuration and setup of the asset pipeline (including its documentation), I took this WTF as more about javascript usage post setup. Edit: JK - the OP mentions lack of Webpacker mention specifically, but also Turbol…

@fordfischer thanks for catching, you’re totally right! @rose , I’m sorry that my first response came from a misread of your message. I really appreciate both of you pointing out the holes in the Rails documentation here, especially because enabling people to do non-SPA frontends is something I car…

I’d like to point out a related concern - beginner friendliness. In contrast to how earlier versions of Rails started me on simple little sprinkles of jQuery, where / how I should start with JS in Rails 6 is pretty cryptic. Granted, teaching JS isn’t quite Rails’ responsibility, but it’d be nice to…

Exactly. Rails is often taught as the most accessible way to get into web development - what used to be a sprinkle of jquery, is now basically, “figure it out on your own”. I think that’s a shift in the wider web development world, not Rails specifically, but since we aren’t going back to a world wh…

@DHH What are the plans for documenting Turbolinks 6 & particularly for documenting how it integrates with Rails? I’m leery of a huge documentation push now given how many things will be changing when T6 lands. There might be potential in involving the community in T6 documentation pre-release, and…

Yes, I would be both willing and able

TL6 isn’t timed with a specific Rails release for the moment, so when we’re ready to share the work, we can definitely do a bunch of joint documentation. Especially around the Rails integration. But we gotta finish up the basic works first. Lots of stuff going to spill out of this (like alleviating …

Javascript documentation is out of date and minimal

A May Of WTFs

rossta (Ross Kaffenberger) May 15, 2020, 10:02pm 14

For visibility, there’s a coordinated effort to write a Rails guide for Webpacker in this thread: JavaScript Documentation Coordination

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