Add equivalent task to "rake assets:clean"

[swrobel]

I don't see any straightforward way to remove all of the outdated packs from public/packs[-test] ... am I missing something?

[gauravtiwari]

@swrobel There is one to remove everything:

bundle exec rails webpacker:clobber
# env aware
RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rails webpacker:clobber

[swrobel]

Thanks, I'm aware of that one, but that's like assets:clobber, not assets:clean.

[ytbryan]

I think we will need an “assets clean” that act on webpacker’s assets

[swrobel]

For context, Heroku's ruby buildpack depends on assets:clean to make sure slug sizes don't get too big. https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby/blob/v177/lib/language_pack/rails4.rb#L92

cc @schneems

[martron]

+1 to this. Our deploy script compiles assets locally and to save time not re-compiling everything we use assets:clean instead of clobber.

[investment-radar]

And for me another thing I want just like assets:clean, by default it will keep 3 versions of the assets files.

[swrobel]

possible solution: heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby#803 (comment)

[ericboehs]

I've started on a solution here: master...ericboehs:eb-4-clean-task

[ytbryan]

looking good! Send a PR!

[ericboehs]

I don't think it's ready. I believe it needs to keep recent versions of the assets or active user sessions will break after a deploy.

[ericboehs]

It's ready. Or as close to ready as I'm going to get it without some input. cc: @ytbryan @swrobel

Edit: If someone wants to try it on Webpacker 3 (or 4), I made a monkey patch: https://gist.github.com/7121c96eab1d1041b8a7000ed2418e7c.

[phlegx]

Are there any news regarding this? Would be really helpful!

[NielsKSchjoedt]

+1

[henrypoydar]

+1

[NielsKSchjoedt]

Looks like there as a cleanup plugin introduced for Webpacker itself, I added this, and it works great! It's a more integrated way of cleaning up those assets instead of relying on rails doing it. https://github.com/johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin