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Useful recap. I went through something similar a few weeks ago and the webpack/tailwindcss JIT/postcss setup has been a pain in the ass: dependency hell, outdated documentation, unintelligible error messages.

I'm glad to see that both rails and phoenix guys are looking for a way out of this madness. The writing is on the wall.

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What disappoints me is that the Rails team fell for this madness in the first place. Rails in particular has planted its flag on the maximize server-side work camp for the sake of overall tool simplicity. It seems like the Rails team was getting insecure of all the JS hype and "is Rails dying" articles and decided to start chasing trends. I called this the second they shoved webpacker into Rails6 and am not at all surprised this is where we are.

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