shakapacker VS simpacker

Compare shakapacker vs simpacker and see what are their differences.

shakapacker

Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails (by shakacode)

simpacker

Use modern JavaScript build system in Rails. (by hokaccha)
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386 134
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8.1 3.7
26 days ago 6 days ago
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shakapacker

Posts with mentions or reviews of shakapacker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
  • Security warnings for npm packages in apps with webpacker
    1 project | /r/rails | 12 Feb 2023
    The migration guide https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/blob/master/docs/v6_upgrade.md looks like it's not too much work, I'll look into it. Still, I'd be interested about the security risks from using vulnerable packages for asset compilation.
  • All The Rails Asset Pipelines
    2 projects | /r/rails | 18 Jan 2023
    For those of us who liked Webpacker: https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker
  • Thank you Webpacker, Goodbye Webpacker
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022
    There is an option to use Shakapacker
  • Rails + Webpack with fingerprinting
    1 project | /r/rails | 25 Oct 2022
    and finally to help your case as well: I would take one more step and replace webpacker with shakapacker. unfortunately in rails 7 the default js / css bundling is not based on webpack and they stopped supporting the original webpacker gem. shakapacker is a maintained successor to the webpacker gem with a better approach: they don't want to force you into writing yaml configs for something that wasn't meant to be a yaml file. also, it has way better defaults than webpacker used to have. then as soon as you got access to the real webpack configs, it'll be more clear where to look or what you need to add to the project.
  • Ruby on Rails 7 - High-performance frontend development with Esbuild, Rollup & Vite
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2022
    webpacker -  Note that Webpacker has been retired, and it is not recommended for use unless you want the additional overhead and pain ;) That said, the folks over at ShakaCode are maintaining a fork named shakapacker
  • Where to put Javascript files in Rails 7
    2 projects | /r/rails | 27 Jan 2022
    You should consider if you want to use Shakapacker (https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker) for more JS intensive applications, or stick to the asset pipeline of jsbundling-rails. You can compare here: https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails/blob/main/docs/comparison_with_webpacker.md
  • Webpacker 6 development continues as shakacode/shakapacker
    4 projects | /r/rails | 19 Jan 2022
    and https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/29
  • Webpack 6 development continues as shakacode/shakapacker
    1 project | /r/rails | 19 Jan 2022
  • Webpacker Has Been Retired
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2022
    Here's the official fork: https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker.

    You can see an example of migration in this PR: https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails_tutorial_with_ss....

    Thoughts?

  • Webpacker Retired
    9 projects | /r/rails | 19 Jan 2022
    Hey everybody, it's me Justin Gordon! I'm the maintainer of Shakapacker, the official successor to the "officially retired" Webpacker. The internal naming of Shakapacker is still webpacker. Upgrading is easy. You can see a comparison of the "new" jsbundling-rails with webpacker here: https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails/blob/main/docs/comparison_with_webpacker.md. Besides the many awesome improvements in v6 (almost all done as "Webpacker"), we've got an open PR to support SWC: https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/29.

simpacker

Posts with mentions or reviews of simpacker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-14.
  • Thank you Webpacker, Goodbye Webpacker
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022
    I needed to create an alternative View helper to replace Webpacker, but decided to use the Simpacker gem rather than implement the helper on my own.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shakapacker and simpacker you can also consider the following projects:

Webpacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

jsbundling-rails - Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, or Webpack.

webpack-manifest-plugin - webpack plugin for generating asset manifests

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

webpack-dev-server - Serves a webpack app. Updates the browser on changes. Documentation https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/.

vite_ruby - ⚡️ Vite.js in Ruby, bringing joy to your JavaScript experience

react_on_rails_demo_ssr_hmr - react_on_rails tutorial demonstrating SSR, HMR fast refresh, and Typescript based on the rails/webpacker webpack setup

Sorcery - Magical Authentication

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

react_on_rails_tutorial_with_ss