I have written a hand full of Rails applications and typically I use the asset pipeline and coffeescript with bootstrap and the likes when deploying. Most of the projects are somewhat barebones from a front end perspective, but that's not to say they aren't functional from the server side. I don't usually have a hard time moving projects from development to production, most of the work ends up being trivial configuration details.

For my most recent rails project, I was looking to add a react form walk-through on sign up. I found a few ruby gems that worked with react and I decided to pick out reactjs/react-rails. I had no problem getting the development environment up and running, but when I tried to move the project into a test environment and then production, webpacker was giving me a time and a half. I ended up scrapping the project and moving forward to something new.

Anyone have similar experiences with dumping side projects? How much work do you usually put into a problem before cutting the cord and moving forward?