importmap-rails VS turbo

Compare importmap-rails vs turbo and see what are their differences.

importmap-rails

Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. (by rails)

turbo

Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo. (by vercel)
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importmap-rails turbo
25 57
1,007 24,847
2.0% 2.1%
8.2 9.9
about 2 months ago 2 days ago
Ruby Rust
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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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 2024-04-15.
  • RubyJS-Vite
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    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.

  • 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  • Pirep.io collects the unpublished, local knowledge on public, private, and unmapped airport that anyone can contribute to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:

turbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of turbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-14.
  • Supermemory - ChatGPT for your bookmarks
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Supermemory has three main modules, managed by turborepo:
  • Next.js Shopify eCommerce Starter with Perfect Web Vitals 🚀
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024
    From a structural viewpoint, we use a monorepo (Turborepo) to manage packages, even though we currently have only one Next.js app. We chose this setup because it prepares us for future developments, which will include additional apps. This arrangement helps keep the packages well-separated and self-contained.
  • dev.to wrapped 2023 🎁
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023
    # src Dockerfile: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web/Dockerfile FROM node:18-alpine AS alpine # setup pnpm on the alpine base FROM alpine as base ENV PNPM_HOME="/pnpm" ENV PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH" RUN corepack enable RUN pnpm install turbo --global FROM base AS builder # Check https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/tree/b4117f9333da4138b03a546ec926ef50a31506c3#nodealpine to understand why libc6-compat might be needed. RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update # Set working directory WORKDIR /app COPY . . RUN turbo prune --scope=web --docker # Add lockfile and package.json's of isolated subworkspace FROM base AS installer RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat RUN apk update WORKDIR /app # First install the dependencies (as they change less often) COPY .gitignore .gitignore COPY --from=builder /app/out/json/ . COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-lock.yaml ./pnpm-lock.yaml COPY --from=builder /app/out/pnpm-workspace.yaml ./pnpm-workspace.yaml RUN pnpm install # Build the project COPY --from=builder /app/out/full/ . COPY turbo.json turbo.json RUN turbo run build --filter=web # use alpine as the thinest image FROM alpine AS runner WORKDIR /app # Don't run production as root RUN addgroup --system --gid 1001 nodejs RUN adduser --system --uid 1001 nextjs USER nextjs COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/next.config.js . COPY --from=installer /app/apps/web/package.json . # Automatically leverage output traces to reduce image size # https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/output-file-tracing COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/standalone ./ COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/.next/static ./apps/web/.next/static COPY --from=installer --chown=nextjs:nodejs /app/apps/web/public ./apps/web/public CMD node apps/web/server.js
  • .dockerignore being ignored by docker-compose? no space left on device
    3 projects | /r/docker | 5 Dec 2023
    Following this example: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/examples/with-docker/apps/web. Except I'm using pnpm. Edit Reddit Codeblocks are horrible and keeps removing all formatting.
  • How to Win Any Hackathon 🚀🤑
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    The Dockerfile might seem a bit complicated (it is), but the reason for that is mostly just turborepo and the need for good caching. Realistically, you will only need to change the last line, if at all. It is based on this awesome Github Issue.
  • PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2023
    PURISTA is organized in a monorepo. During the development and build process, Turbo is used to execute different tasks and steps on multiple packages with one command.
  • How I approach and structure Enterprise frontend applications after 4 years of using Next.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2023
    Turbo repo
  • Vercel Integration and Next.js App Router Support
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    Previously we mapped each Vercel project to a single Supabase project. With this release, we're introducing the concept of project 'Connections'. Supabase projects can have an unlimited number of Vercel Connections. This is especially useful for monorepos using Turborepo.
  • How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
    One detail I enjoy from this post is that sometimes you can just call a CLI[0]. It's easy to spend a lot of time figuring out how to expose some Rust/C code as a library for your language, but I like the simplicity of just compiling, shipping the binary and then calling it as a subprocess.

    Yes, there's overhead in starting a new process to "just call a function", but I think this approach is still underutilized.

    [0]: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/c0ee0dea7388d1081512c93...

  • App Router example repos
    6 projects | /r/nextjs | 30 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing importmap-rails and turbo you can also consider the following projects:

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

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

esbuild-rails - Esbuild Rails plugin

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

esbuilder - Integrate esbuild into Rails

create-t3-app - The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

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

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

esbuild-live-reload

buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck

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.

Turbolinks - Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster