No way to use the gem without sprockets installed

[Kukunin]

Hello. I'm so glad to see great progress on assets management in Rails, especially in Rails 7. I noticed that sprockets are no longer a required dependency, and webpacker is deprecated, so I decided to migrate to the latest assets management with jsbundling-rails, cssbundling-rails, esbuild, and tailwind.

But it was a surprise for me that sprockets is still required for the latest assets management. rails new comes with sprockets installed, and the latest released version of this gem expects the assets:precompile rake task to be defined.

The biggest problem is that

    <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", "data-turbo-track": "reload" %>
    <%= javascript_include_tag "application", "data-turbo-track": "reload", defer: true %>

does not work without sprockets. It renders just elements as is:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/application.css" data-turbo-track="reload" />
    <script src="/javascripts/application.js" data-turbo-track="reload" defer="defer"></script>

that leads to 404 responses for the Rails.

As far as I understand the goal is to replace complicated and old sprockets with foreign tools, such as esbuild and tailwind, so that's why I created this issue to track the progress.

I'm sorry if I get something wrong, and these gems still expect sprockets to be installed

Thank you

[dhh]

You need either Sprockets or Propshaft.