Why Marc is removing webpack from wip.co website? What went wrong with webpack?

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saw this in telegram on 2022-02-20 so curious

Marc Köhlbrugge · Accepted Answer

I've always had problems with webpack and webpacker (the tool that integrats webpack into Rails). It might simply be because I don't understand enough of the eco-system and I never bothered to really look into it. But with some recent changes to Rails and new alternatives I finally decided to get rid of webpacker altogether. It's actually the new default for Rails apps as many developers had issues with it.

Spencer Walden · Answer

@kimsia I would imagine he moved to import map, which is the rails 7 default - https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails/

Their rationale is here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/rails-7-will-have-three-great-answers-to-javascript-in-2021-8d68191b

Marc Köhlbrugge · Answer

[`jsbundling`](https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails) but also considering import map as @swalden mentioned

KimSia Sim · Answer

So what do you use if not webpack?

KimSia Sim · Answer

Thank you Spencer

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