AssetPipeline
AssetPipeline is a framework used in web development to manage and process various types of assets. It aims to streamline the workflow of integrating front-end resources such as JavaScript, CSS, and images into a web application. The primary goal of AssetPipeline is to improve performance by optimizing these assets. This optimization can involve minification, which reduces file sizes by removing unnecessary characters, and concatenation, which combines multiple files into fewer ones to decrease the number of HTTP requests.
Beyond basic optimization, AssetPipeline often supports preprocessors and transpilers. For example, it can compile languages like