Rails 8: Don’t Get Lost in Building & Packaging Paradigms

For getting Bootstrap to work with Rails 8, you need to choose between Propshaft, JSBundling/CSSBundling, Shakapacker, or Vite Rails as your asset pipeline or JavaScript paradigm. (Note: Propshaft is the new default asset pipeline, not a packager. The other three options are packagers that handle bundling and transpiling.) One sentence for anyone upgrading: Sprockets is gone as the Rails [ ] The…