"Using the Webpack-Rails gem allowed us to finally compile frontend assets when deployed instead of checking the minified files into source control for Heroku d

"Using the Webpack-Rails gem allowed us to finally compile frontend assets when deployed instead of checking the minified files into source control for Heroku deployments." Huge red flag for a project. Checking in minified files at any point of app development is a nightmare for developers. The fact that they were doing this at all is no good. And if you're reading this and your team is doing it, that's no good either! The #1 thing you can do to speed up a SPA is server side rendering, which it doesn't look like this company is doing https://progressly.com/engineering#/engineering https://progressly.com/engineering#/engineering. The entire page is blank for almost a second on each load. Was it 5s before? I sure hope not! But the tactics mentioned in this article are insignificant to actual server rendering.