I’ve been building apps/apis /w graphql and webpack for some time now. I usually start with a rails new then start removing all the files/frameworks i don’t need for decreasing the cognitive load.
Over time when i need it i start adding things like mailer/sprockets/maybe active job (if that app ever requires it)
For this i’d love a —bare option to rails that just makes a minimal rails app.
rails new myapp —bare
rails add sprockets
rails add activemailer
rails remove sprockets
rails add webpacker
The idea is that when you start with —bare you can pick and choose your frameworks and we provide a convention to add/remove/migrate them
Also you can even extend this to third parties, if they implement a convention or a hook.
rails add activeadmin
The easiest way to do this would maybe delegate the rails add activeadmin to a rake task such as rails g activeadmin:add and rails g activeadmin:remove.
Ofcourse we can make actual hooks and expose them via a railtie too.
The good thing is, we have a convention of adding/removing things to our rails app. We could even go so far of adding the gem to the Gemfile, but not sure if thats smart at the moment.
What do you all think?