importmap-rails VS esbuild-live-reload

Compare importmap-rails vs esbuild-live-reload and see what are their differences.

importmap-rails

Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. (by rails)
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importmap-rails esbuild-live-reload
24 1
996 8
2.6% -
8.2 0.0
26 days ago over 2 years ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License -
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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 2024-01-17.
  • First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    Importmap audit - “checks the NPM registry for known security issues”
  • Asset compilation taking ~ 12 mins
    2 projects | /r/rails | 6 Jul 2023
    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.
  • Is the default importmap method unrealistic in the most popular real world use cases?
    5 projects | /r/rails | 9 May 2023
    You can't use TypeScript, or anything that requires pre-compile, with importmap. answered issue
  • Ruby on Rails with React on Typescript using importmaps
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2023
    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
  • Pirep.io collects the unpublished, local knowledge on public, private, and unmapped airport that anyone can contribute to
    4 projects | /r/flying | 13 Apr 2023
    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.
  • Dusting off my rails knowledge, need some tips / guidance on rails 7 and production
    10 projects | /r/rails | 7 Apr 2023
    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
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2023
  • A powerful search feature with what Rails provides out of the box
    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    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.
  • Stimulus MultiSelect
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2022
    If you're using importmap-rails, you'll need to pin stimulus-multiselect:
  • Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
    12 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2022
    While I prefer using importmaps-rails to jsbundling-rails, I found many developers and companies want to have the ability to use JS libraries as they used with Webpack. Old habit I think.

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.
  • Live reloading with Ruby on Rails and esbuild
    11 projects | dev.to | 6 Nov 2021
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing importmap-rails and esbuild-live-reload you can also consider the following projects:

jsbundling-rails - Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild, rollup.js, or Webpack.

esbuild-rails - Esbuild Rails plugin

esbuilder - Integrate esbuild into Rails

vite_ruby - ⚡️ Vite.js in Ruby, bringing joy to your JavaScript experience

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

sprockets-rails - Sprockets Rails integration

import-maps - How to control the behavior of JavaScript imports

docker-rails-example - A production ready example Rails app that's using Docker and Docker Compose.

TinyMCE - The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

turbo - The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript