The import-maps gem finally allows us to get rid of JavaScript tooling in our Ruby on Rails projects, whether it’s esbuild or webpacker.

Let’s see together how to convert a project using esbuild, in my case, to import-maps.

Initial State

Our layout links the application.js and

The partials in Ruby on Rails can quickly become a nightmare to manage because the only way to have the list of variables (locals in Rails jargon) used by a partial is to directly read its source code, which often contains several hundred lines of HTML code…

Since the release...

Ruby on Rails 7 has introduced a new executable bin/dev. It won’t be present by default unless you create a new application with the --css option or run the css:install command.

This file calls the Foreman Gem which, in turn, executes the processes defined in the...