Ariel Juodziukynas joins the Rogues to talk about how to upgrade your Ruby on Rails application from Sprockets to Webpacker.



Sprockets was introduced in Rails 3.1 to help you manage your static assets including JavaScript. Webpack came along to help manage JavaScript and eventually other assets later on and was adopted into Rails in version 5 and is now the preferred way to manage JavaScript assets in Ruby on Rails applications.



Ariel has written a guide on how to move from Sprockets to Webpacker and discussed with the Rogues the pros, cons, and pitfalls of such a move in your applications.



Panel




John Epperson
Luke Stutters




Guest




Ariel Juodziukynas




Sponsors




Dev Influencers Accelerator




Links




Goodbye Dependabot Preview, hello Dependabot!
How to Migrate your JavaScript from Sprockets to Webpacker
Webpack VS Sprockets
GitHub | fastruby/next_rails
Phoenix.LiveView 
Twitter: Ariel Juodziukynas ( @arieljuod )




Picks




Ariel- GitHub | arielj/rails-new-app
John- RailsBump
John- Gas Powered Weed Whackers for Medium/Large Sized Yards
Luke- All Ruby Books @ Planet Ruby
Luke- The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source - Coraline Ada Ehmke



Special Guest: Ariel Juodziukynas.