Browserify breaks action cable about browserify-rails

[bajalovic]

hi @cymen I already had on my roadmap to migrate to webpacker, and this issue just fast-forwarded that task to the top :)

I am not sure what the problem was, maybe my project became too big (i have like ~100 JS files which I do not think is too much)?!

I will close this for now as I am not using browserify anymore.

[cymen]

@bajalovic That sounds like a hot reload issue although you say you reload the page so it seems not? Odd. Maybe worth looking at this to see if any ideas there:

https://github.com/wclittle/Rails5-ActionCable-Redux-React-ChatAppExample

Also, if this is not a legacy project, you might consider trying rails/webpacker or a more modern approach than this gem. Another issue brought up this topic and I updated the README to share some opinionated thoughts on this topic here:

https://github.com/browserify-rails/browserify-rails#should-you-use-this-gem

[cymen]

Yeah, 100 files should be fine. When I've had performance problems in the past, it was more just slow -- it always worked (besides when browserify-incremental got buggy and required a clear of the cache). So it is probably something else.

But 👍 on migrating to webpacker.