The assets module works quite well today, but it is limited to:

• implementation of new processor
• keep existing processor up-to-date

A good feature of the asset module is that we don't have to deal with nodejs installations and the application just work in any environment with a simply jooby:run

We are going to add a frontend module using: https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin which allows us to keep clean and local nodejs installation but also all the variety of frontend tools available today for Javascript, including:

• webpack
• rollup
• grunt/gulp
• etc..

At build time we don't need much and the https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin can process and package assets results for us.

We need to extend/integrate the https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin at development time, specially with jooby:run