Importmap rails

[alecslupu]

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[alecslupu]

Findings after 100+ files being changed....

1. ImportMaps may be useful for SPA
2. ImportMaps works fine only with Support from Sprockets

Please see : #8783 (comment)

[alecslupu]

At the moment there is no point in continuing work on this PR due to lack of support adopting this functionality.

[justin808]

@alecslupu what major issues did you face with https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails?

[alecslupu]

@alecslupu what major issues did you face with https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails?

@justin808, This is just a decidim related thing. In our case:

• We just had to consider compatibility with the community developed modules
• We had too many Webpack dependencies
• Also the lack of support from community adopting this approach, but also technical limitations (please see the arguments in Webpacker alternatives - which path should we go to? #8783 (comment))