tailwindcss-rails VS importmap-rails

Compare tailwindcss-rails vs importmap-rails 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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tailwindcss-rails importmap-rails
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8.5 8.2
21 days ago 25 days ago
Ruby Ruby
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tailwindcss-rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of tailwindcss-rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
  • 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 additional CSS packages (like Flowbite) with the official tailwindcss-rails gem. According to this answered issue, you should either give up importmap and use a bundler, or use a CSS file from CDN - which is not ideal (unnecessary classes won't be purged this way).
  • How to bundle assets in a Rails engine
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2023
    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.
  • Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
    12 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2022
    Preconfigured TailwindCSS from TailwindCSS-rails ready to use out of the box, pass --css tailwind as an option.✅
  • User notifications with Rails, Noticed, and Hotwire
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2022
    Thanks to the magic of Rails, the scaffold generator gives us almost everything we need to start creating messages and associating them with users. Because we are using Tailwind via the tailwindcss-rails gem, the scaffold generator also includes some nice looking base styles too.
  • Pagination and infinite scrolling with Rails and the Hotwire stack
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2022
    Because we are using Tailwind via the tailwindcss-rails gem, the scaffold generator applies some basic Tailwind styling to generated views, so we have nice looking Widget pages right out of the box.
  • Launching Multiple Processes with a Single Command in Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022
    Here's a simple way to achieve this, inspired by the tailwindcss-rails gem.
  • Upgrading from Rails 6.x Webpacker to Rails 7 Importmaps
    7 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    gem "rails", "~> 7.0.0" # The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails] gem "sprockets-rails" # Use postgresql as the database for Active Record gem "pg", "~> 1.1" # 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" # Use Tailwind CSS [https://github.com/rails/tailwindcss-rails] gem "tailwindcss-rails" # Build JSON APIs with ease [https://github.com/rails/jbuilder] gem "jbuilder" gem "redis", "~> 4.0"
  • Rails 7 Tailwind Scaffold Question
    3 projects | /r/rails | 23 Dec 2021
    When you generate an app with rails new --css=tailwind without a JS option, you get the tailwindcss-rails gem which includes the new scaffold generators. When you pass in a JavaScript option as well, you get Tailwind installed via cssbundling-rails, which does not include built-in generators since it offers more than just Tailwind as an option.
  • Effortlessly install TailwindCss in a Rails app with Webpack (minimum configuration)
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Aug 2021
    A while back DHH decided to created a gem for easily installing TailwindCss into rails apps 🙌🏻. This gem could be used to install Tailwind through the asset pipeline as well as using webpack. This changed later on as contributors wanted to focus their attention to what was the heart of the gem 🥺.
  • Rails and Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2021
    I'm going to use the tailwindcss-rails gem, the only thing you need to do is to run these two commands in the console:

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tailwindcss-rails and importmap-rails 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

esbuild-live-reload

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

cssbundling-rails - Bundle and process CSS in Rails with Tailwind, PostCSS, and Sass via Node.js.

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