[irjustin]

Yeah migrating my Rails 5 system to Webpacker from the pipeline was not smooth and you're right, Rails ended up adopting a system that is configuration hell.

All that said - I love Stimulus.js and Webpacker now that I fought through all the insanity (Webpack configs are nightmare of splicing and trying to reference relative folders either in node_modules or some alias located... well webpack doesn't know...)

If you're on the fence, migrate the entire thing to Webpack - forcefully, with prejudice. Living in both assets pipeline and webpacker is a mental duality that don't co-mingle.

By forcefully, I mean copy/paste raw assets instead of relying on their package that sticks it into the old pipeline.

Stimulus is nutso lightweight and "just makes sense". Everything is self contained.