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  "url": "https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails/"
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  },
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  "sharing": {
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- "facebook": true,
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- "twitter": true,
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- "google": true,
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+ "twitter": true,
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- # Asset Pipeline
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+ # Asset Pipeline with React on Rails
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- The plumbing of webpack produced assets through the asset pipeline is deprecated as of v9.0.
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+ In general, you should not be mixing the asset pipeline with rails/webpacker and React on Rails.
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+ If you're using React, then all of your CSS and images should be under either `/client` or
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- ```
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- config.symlink_non_digested_assets_regex = /\.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|tiff|woff|ttf|eot|svg|map)/
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- ```
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+ Please email [justin@shakacode.com](mailto:justin@shakacode.com) if you would be interested in help
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+ to migrate a larger application.
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