Webpacker & cocoon javascript

[ajkiessl]

To use cocoon with webpacker, the javascript file must be copied from github:nathanvda/cocoon and placed in app/javascripts/base.

A proposed change to cocoon may allow yarn or npm install to work without the need to copy the js file. This has not been completed yet so this ticket is a reminder to check and make the change if/when it becomes available.

nathanvda/cocoon#454

Update: Looks like we can require this code by adding the following to the application.js:
https://github.com/nathanvda/cocoon#rails-6webpacker

[jlandiseigsti]

Maybe a bigger question: considering cocoon hasn't released a new version in 5+ years, the latest version of rails it references in the docs in 6, and it requires jquery, do we want to phase out cocoon? This would be likely be a big undertaking, but given that we're already looking at Rails 8, it seems likely we'll have to do it sooner or later.

[ajkiessl]

Jesse LE (@jlandiseigsti) Yeah, I agree. We should move away from cocoon.