How to Install Shoelace with Rails 7, esbuild, and PostCSS

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  • shoelace-css

    A collection of professionally designed, every day UI components built on Web standards. SHOELACE IS BECOMING WEB AWESOME. WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! 👇👇👇

  • Shoelace is a fantastic library of frontend components that are framework-agnostic and work well with Hotwire-style web projects. I wanted to try out the brand-new release of Rails 7 along with Shoelace, but I quickly ran into a snag.

  • PostCSS

    Transforming styles with JS plugins

  • Thankfully, what is far more appealing regarding Rails 7 is its additional support for esbuild and PostCSS, two very fast, very capable, and extremely customizable frontend build tools. While I'm bummed that there's no real config file shipping out of the box for esbuild, such things can be put together with the right resources. Maybe the community can step up.

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • esbuild

    An extremely fast bundler for the web

  • Thankfully, what is far more appealing regarding Rails 7 is its additional support for esbuild and PostCSS, two very fast, very capable, and extremely customizable frontend build tools. While I'm bummed that there's no real config file shipping out of the box for esbuild, such things can be put together with the right resources. Maybe the community can step up.

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