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Discussion on: 25 reasons to switch to Webpack(er)

 
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Andrew Mason

It’s worth mentioning I work on app that has scaled stimulus. And the community is growing larger and larger in my limited view.

I don’t think I can adequately convey my counterpoints without turning this in to an argument or writing a novel so I’ll just leave it at: it’s not for everyone or every product (which is true of everything) but truly shines when you are already leveraging turbolinks and even more in an app backed by Rails 🙂

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leob • Edited

Right, yes the combo with Turbolinks is its sweet spot I think ...

Do you think it works well when you need to dynamically generate/append DOM elements (as opposed to working with existing server side generated markup only)? For instance, in a heavily AJAX based UI where you need to add new elements to a list after an AJAX call (without a page re-render) ...