esbuild-live-reload
By DavidColby
importmap-rails
Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. (by rails)
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8 | 1,010 | |
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0.0 | 8.0 | |
over 2 years ago | 16 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
- | MIT License |
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esbuild-live-reload
Posts with mentions or reviews of esbuild-live-reload.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-06.
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Live reloading with Ruby on Rails and esbuild
Today we created an esbuild config file that enables live reloading (but not HMR) for our jsbundling-rails powered Rails application. As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, this is very much an experiment and this configuration has not been tested on an application of any meaningful size. You can find the finished code for this example application on Github.
importmap-rails
Posts with mentions or reviews of importmap-rails.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-28.
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The Rails asset pipeline, old and new
It is implemented as a thor task in lib/importmap/cmmands.rb
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RubyJS-Vite
With importmaps (https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails) and Hotwire (https://hotwired.dev/), you write plain js and serve it.
Also packages are served via CDN. There is no tree shaking. Rails got rid of the whole bundling step.
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Importmap audit - “checks the NPM registry for known security issues”
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Asset compilation taking ~ 12 mins
It worked, but JS changes were not coming through. Digging into the Importmap docs (see 'sweeping the cache', it monitors changes according to the setting config.importmap.cache_sweepers. So, by adding the locations where I have my JS files, I also got JS changes passed through.
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Is the default importmap method unrealistic in the most popular real world use cases?
You can't use TypeScript, or anything that requires pre-compile, with importmap. answered issue
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Ruby on Rails with React on Typescript using importmaps
Let's begin by installing the necessary dependencies. The first gem generates the importmap object, manages caching, and helps with library installations, among other things. I recommend reading the entire readme to become familiar with its capabilities. The second gem will be discussed later, it is used to compile JSX files. Gemfile
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Pirep.io collects the unpublished, local knowledge on public, private, and unmapped airport that anyone can contribute to
Yeah, those were brand new right around the time I started this project a few years ago with Rails 7 (or was it 6.1?). I actually ended up removing them in favor of importmap-rails since I wanted as simple of a frontend as possible and I wasn't sure of relying on what was, at the time, a brand new way of doing frontend work. Things change so quickly in JS-land that I'm always hesitant to make something a dependency unless it has a strong track record of being continuously maintained.
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Dusting off my rails knowledge, need some tips / guidance on rails 7 and production
source "https://rubygems.org" git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" } ruby "3.1.0" # Bundle edge Rails instead: gem "rails", github: "rails/rails", branch: "main" gem "rails", "~> 7.0.4", ">= 7.0.4.2" # The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails] gem "sprockets-rails" # Use sqlite3 as the database for Active Record gem "sqlite3", "~> 1.4" # Use the Puma web server [https://github.com/puma/puma] gem "puma", "~> 5.0" # Use JavaScript with ESM import maps [https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails] gem "importmap-rails" # Hotwire's SPA-like page accelerator [https://turbo.hotwired.dev] gem "turbo-rails" # Hotwire's modest JavaScript framework [https://stimulus.hotwired.dev] gem "stimulus-rails" # Build JSON APIs with ease [https://github.com/rails/jbuilder] gem "jbuilder" gem "mongoid" gem "mongoid-grid_fs" gem 'bootstrap', '~> 5.2.2' #sourced from https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-rubygem gem 'rack-cors' # Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem gem "tzinfo-data", platforms: %i[ mingw mswin x64_mingw jruby ] # Reduces boot times through caching; required in config/boot.rb gem "bootsnap", require: false
- Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps
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A powerful search feature with what Rails provides out of the box
Also, installing StimulusReflex seems quite not easy for the moment: It seems there are some quirks along the way if you're using import-maps for managing javascript dependencies as I do. Embracing the Rails way at least prevents you from this sort of issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing esbuild-live-reload and importmap-rails you can also consider the following projects:
jsbundling-rails - Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, or Webpack.