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Pre-compile engine assets to shield host apps

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Recommendation from Adrian Marin's wroclove.rb 2022 talk: pre-compile your Rails engine's CSS and JavaScript at gem build time (esbuild + Tailwind into `public/<engine>-assets/`) and expose them via a `Rack::Static` middleware in the engine class. This abstracts the whole asset pipeline away from your users — they don't need Node.js, esbuild, or Tailwind on their deploy servers.

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Key recommendation from the talk's asset-pipeline section.

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