Not just with rails, laravel had this problem with js/ mix. The PHP part would run just fine but the Js tools broke the app. npm install never just works. I

Not just with rails, laravel had this problem with js/ mix. The PHP part would run just fine but the Js tools broke the app. npm install never just works. In my experience Compiled js apps decay really fast. The more complex newer the build tool, the fast it decays.