Rails would benefit from a canonical more logical locating of folders and files in Webpacker. I followed several articles and not knowing what I was doing, now have this, some of which needs to be refactored, but it works and I spent enough time on in. /app/javascript/stylesheets/documents.scss /ap…

Second this one in particular. The default app directory gives me a pretty good starting point for me to organise most of my Rails code. app/javascript feels like an intimidating blank slate. Sprockets had its drawbacks, but the structure it provided felt pretty intuitive and Rails-y

Based on other posts and blogs I’ve changed to /app/webpacker/ as the folder. As well as being more logical, IMHO; a beneficial side affect (although trivial) is that now /views and /webpacker are right next to each other which helps in text editors. Now we need to find another name for controller,…

/wayfinders ? :sunglasses: Walter

Less severe sounding than controllers. VWMW.

I also encounter the same problem. Thanks for the information. myccpay

Webpacker and "config" file organization

A May Of WTFs

Betsy_Haibel (Betsy Haibel) May 17, 2020, 5:56pm 2

Thanks for this feedback!

There’s a coordinated effort going on to improve the documentation around this. You can look for updates here:

JavaScript Documentation Coordination

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