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Can't deploy to Heroku and other places

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Description

Problem is that webpacker enhances `rake assets:precompile` to build the assets first, then builds the packs.

This doesn't work as Hyperstack references the packs from the application.js (via the `hyperstack-loader.js` file.) So the application.js file will not reference the packs.

The solution is to build the packs first, by adding the following lines the Rakefile in the application root directory:

```ruby
puts "Warning: Hyperstack is running yarn install and webpacker:compile BEFORE assets:precompile"
# determine if we should use built in yarn:install or use webpacker:yarn_install
yarn_installer = (Rails::VERSION::MAJOR == 5 && Rails::VERSION::MINOR == 0) ? 'webpacker:yarn_install' : 'yarn:install'
# install yarn and compile packs BEFORE assets:precompile
Rake::Task["assets:precompile"].enhance([yarn_installer, 'webpacker:compile'])
```

> Note: If you are patching an existing system, and you are already on Rails 5.1 or newer you can simplify the above to a single line: `Rake::Task["assets:precompile"].enhance(['yarn:install', 'webpacker:compile'])`

The above should be added to the hyperstack-rails configuration script (if webpack is being installed.)

Because there might be unknown side effects to this, this should be done as a patch (i.e. like the above) rather than sticking it a rake file in the hyperstack-rails lib directory for example.

https://github.com/rails/webpacker/issues/2237 has been raised on the rails webpacker gem. Hopefully the Rails team can accept this reversal in ordering, in which case the whole problem goes away.

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