Well at least you are not asking for webpack
I’ve pushed this rock before. I have in here everyday in the past complained how painful webpack was and that we should push to esbuild. I guess we have come full circle again.
I didn’t post this as a retort for asking to use bun.js but rather to say. It would look like every so many years that our asset tools evolve and we end up wanting to migrate. This clearly requires some effort on someones part and we should not just expect the core team to just want to pick up a new tool every few years.
Phoenix already does a good job at abstracting that pipeline for the most part.
The only thing I think that really keeps us coupled to this workflow is the trigger for watching a file so that it gets recompiled while running a dev server. “PhoenixLiveReload”
It would be nice to see phoenix in the future be completely static asset management agnostic and not come pre baked with any 3rd party lib for that.
This has been one of the biggest issues when working on any legacy app. The Node js libs that need to be managed in said tool cry because they are too out of date and no longer compatible.