I'm working on a project that includes pictures for a google maps overlay and consequently contains around 750k image assets. This project uses rails 6 and webpacker, and after copying in all the files to the correct directory the webpage load times increase to the point of hours. The assets are located in /app/assets/images/.
So far I've tried using rails assets:precompile, which after a night of compiling didn't finish. An odd thing is this only happens after a server restart. If I copy in the files while the server is running then everything behaves and performs fine.
What can I do to fix this? Am I fundamentally misunderstanding where the images should go and how webpacker should fit in?
Thanks
Ultimately wound up not including the files in development. In production we use apache, and that serves the large number of files without any problem.