Over the years, Rails has been changing the default way to handle assets while also adding different alternative options at the same time.
At first there were static files, then Sprockets appeared, then we had a choice between Webpacker and Sprockets for a few years, now Webpacker is gone and importmaps are the default. But jsbundling-rails and cssbundling-rails are also official options.
Sound confusing? In this article we’ll try to explain the history of all these changes.
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