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by steveklabnik2 4964 days ago
The asset pipline isn't removed, so you don't need to do anything special.

That said, I don't think that it's ideal for heavy JS apps. Lots of possible work that could be done in this area.
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irahul 4963 days ago
> That said, I don't think that it's ideal for heavy JS apps.

Rails-api churns out JSON, JS consumes it. I can think of performance being an issue.

What are the other issues?

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steveklabnik2 4963 days ago
I've responded to your sibling.
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mahesh_rm 4963 days ago
Why don't you? Can you please elaborate on that? Thank you!
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steveklabnik2 4963 days ago
Basically, as it stands, you have to put your {Ember,Backbone,..} app in `app/assets/javascripts/app/models`, for example, which is kinda crazy. I'd like to see JavaScript become an actual first-class citizen.

Also, the pipeline has been re-written for Rails 4, but historically it's been kinda slow and buggy.

For an example of what I'm thinking about, rake-pipeline-web is interesting.

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