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by xdennis 1767 days ago
> I'm looking forward to Phoenix 1.6 which ditches Webpack for esbuild. Every step away from the insane churn of the modern frontend world is welcome.

I don't like the churn either, but ditching X for Y only contributes to the churn.

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Looks like Rails wants off Webpacker as well https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails
Yes, Rails 7 will not use webpack (or almost any other “modern JS”) by default. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/42999 is the big change.
Phoenix is the maintainer of the Elixir esbuild package--it's just a binary.
This is too broad to be true in general. It depends on what Y is...