Potentially removing brunch from the Phoenix new template generator

Ok, so it seems like the brunch project is dead at this point?

Many of their libraries (at least the ones we’re using) are not maintained at all, with few or no releases over the last half year, and it’s especially evident in the last 3 months.

E.g., on our production app, we’re using sass. To get that working we’ve had to pull the master branch to get it to compile. This is an issue everybody will experience if they use recent nodejs version, but there has been no release for a year.

I feel that a simple build tool with NPM scripts would be far the best solution for Phoenix. But at least switching to a well-maintained library like webpack would be much better. Brunch has been a painful experience for us, and I don’t think Phoenix should default new users to it.

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