No one is stopping you from using an asset folder and doing it like you did before. You want to pre-optimize images that's why you are hopefully doing it. Supp

No one is stopping you from using an asset folder and doing it like you did before. You want to pre-optimize images that's why you are hopefully doing it. Support for others is inbuilt. Why transpile to single files? It will be faster to have many smaller files for http2 speed up. Bootcamp also teaches those concepts nowadays. They are different than what they used to be. Check frontend masters, egghead etc.