[louissm_it]

ESbuild is getting fantastic traction. It’s the default in Phoenix from 1.6 and comes as a default option in the current alpha of Rails 7, which you can get with a simple

rails new your_app -j esbuild

The only sort of issue I’ve had with it so far is you can’t use it with Inertiajs[1] as it does not support dynamic imports out of the box. Although I’m hesitant to call it an issue if its not in the scope of the project. Perhaps there are plugins I can use.

[1] - https://inertiajs.com

[d3nj4l]

Esbuild w/rails 7 is nice, but if you’re using rails, check out vite_ruby [1]. I used it in a side project and it comes with plugins for views HMR + all the good stuff that comes built into vite.

1: https://github.com/ElMassimo/vite_ruby

[louissm_it]

Yes 100% - I’m actually using Vite Ruby in a project as I really wanted to use Inertia + React and that was by far the easiest way to get everything up and running.

I’d go so far as to say I wish -j vite was an option in js-bundling :)

[deergomoo]

Does it not support dynamic imports at all, or does it just not support “dynamic dynamic imports” i.e. dynamic imports where the module path is not constant?

If it’s the latter, you could have your Inertia page resolver be a giant switch statement of every possible page, where each case is a dynamic import call with a constant module name.

Kind of a pain but I think I’d prefer that if it meant I never had to write a webpack config again.

[dorianmariefr]

You can use esbuild to your existing rails apps via the gem jsbundling-rails https://github.com/rails/jsbundling-rails

It works really well