The Rails community attempted to do something like this with the introduction of Webpacker in Rails 5. They backtracked after a few months. Most likely after re

The Rails community attempted to do something like this with the introduction of Webpacker in Rails 5. They backtracked after a few months. Most likely after realizing how many thousands of npm packages make tightly coupled assumptions to the location of things like ‘package.json’ and the amount of patches it would require.