Disable assets concatenation when compiling

[ilyadh]

Hi,

Is it possible to not concatenate assets when compiling? I want to try importmaps, and serve every file separately.

[jeremyevans]

That isn't supported currently. Note that even when not compiling, in production mode, assets are cached just like any other template, so they aren't recompiled every request (and in development mode, they are also cached, but there is check every request to see if the template has been modified). You could try using non-compiled mode and seeing if that works for you.

[ilyadh]

Thanks, that's useful to know!

I still want to compress and digest the files, though. I kind of found a workaround by using asset groups with group_subdirs: false. It's not pretty, but it works!

js = Dir.glob("*.js", base: "assets/js").map { [_1.split('.').first.to_sym,  _1] }.to_h

plugin :assets, js:, group_subdirs: false
compile_assets

define_method :assets_paths do |type|
  js.flat_map do |key,|
    super([type, key])
  end
end

I guess the only thing is that calling assets_paths multiple times is not great. For production I'll need to rewrite it to collect all of the paths in one go.