[bdcravens]

I think a lot of devs are over the asset pipeline. Recently I built a small app where front-end performance really wasn't a concern. I stuck all of the assets in /public and called it a day. I also think you'll see more Rails apps using package.json and webpack for assets management.

As for the scripts section of package.json, that's typically managed via rake tasks, that can be listed via rake -T.