How do you manage dependencies?

[krashidov]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to create a Rails app with React, following this tutorial:
https://medium.com/@olance/rails-react-browserify-e315001d5974

The summary of that tutorial is that he shows how to setup the react-rails gem and add browserify so that you can manage your dependencies using npm and load them with commonJS.

But, reading from the issues, it looks like commonjs and broweserify is not supported with this gem, (unless you use a workaround like #120 )

So my question is, what is the preferred or "first-class" way of handling dependencies ?

Thanks in advance!

[rmosolgo]

I think the short answer is:

• This gem works great if you do your dependencies Sprockets-style (eg, installing gems like underscore-rails or copy-pasting dependencies into app/assets/javascripts/vendor, then requiring them with //= require ....)
• This gem doesn't have any trappings to support commonjs requires, and that's a known bummer. No PRs to fix it at the moment, just some suggested workarounds :)