react-rails VS jsbundling-rails

The current gem does not help you with this however since it is designed for SPA frameworks. If you wish to take this approach, you can build your own system or use Gems like react-rails and turbo-mount. Turbo Mount uses Stimulus to mount components, and is more robust if you are using Hotwire in your ERB views.

> But what if you want to use React?

Then just use React. There's nothing stopping you and it's well supported.

You can use either https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails

or https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

Personally would also go with a No Build set up. i.e. https://hotwire.io/ and import maps.

One is to add a gem: react-rails or react_on_rails for example. But there is a way to have a simple integration without using these gems.

https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails here is the functionality and simplicity that I would be kind of looking for. The option for it to exist in Django ecosystem is not that outlandish and I wouldn’t be too ignorant of it having to make sense or not make sense to everyone :)

You can however use reactjs with rails, there is a gem for it https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

The react-rails library is one of the most popular Ruby gems to integrate React with Rails. It provides generators for components, testing helpers, and view helpers to render JavaScript code inside the views.

I'd checkout https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

> But what if you want to use React?

Then just use React. There's nothing stopping you and it's well supported.

You can use either https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails

or https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

Personally would also go with a No Build set up. i.e. https://hotwire.io/ and import maps.

I think this is more like a demo - you will not get the same features as jsbundling-rails by only following instructions in the video. For that you will need to change some other files as well. You can find out what files to be added/changed from the install script. The important bits are mostly the same as in the video, but some supplement parts are not mentioned in the video. Some people actually reported in the comment that they can't deploy such app, but I think it depends.

I'm sorry, I didn't see that in your title. Using esbuild is 100% supported by Rails through this gem https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails. Have a look at the docs there to make sure that you're setup correctly.

Rails applications are bundler-agnostic. They do not care how you bundle your javascript code. It just expects whatever comes from the bundler to be placed under app/assets, so the asset pipeline processes it. We can see this in the official jsbundling-rails gem, which consists of scripts to install different bundlers and configure a default npm build command to generate our bundles—no interaction whatsoever with the Rails configuration. This black-box bundler logic allows us to change and update our bundler system without tuning any other aspect of our Rails application.

Hello, this is my first time setting up a rails app that also uses react, I am using https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails I went with esbuild because I am following this tutorial on setting it up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoLJXjEV2nM, however when I run bin/dev in the terminal I get the error bin/dev: 8: exec: foreman: not found

You first install your asset handlers as you need them for your project. They can be anything from rails/jsbundling-rails and rails/tailwindcss-rails to webpacker or something custom.

The functionality comes from https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails and https://github.com/rails/cssbundling-rails -- both come with Rails 7 and all you have to do is generate your app with the choices you want such as -j esbuild --css tailwind.