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Rails 7, Bootstrap 5 and importmaps without nodejs
Our goal: remove nodejs
As many other people in the Rails community, I started setting up brand new Rails 7 projects, and I need to re-learn, at least partially, how to bundle the assets and distribute them.
I never fell in love with TailwindCSS, and therefore I usually setup my Rails apps to use Bootstrap as default.
But what I really like about Rails 7, is the idea of being able to get rid of not only webpack, but of nodejs entirely. The new importmaps feature is really appealing to me and I'd like to use it as long as I don't need to bundle my javascript.
I have to say that esbuild
does already a pretty cool job compared to webpack
to simplify our lives, and make the process faster, but as long as I don't need bundling, I'd like to not have a package.json file and being dependent on nodejs for my Rails app.
A pure and simple sprockets + importmaps app with no Foreman, no bin/dev
, no yarn build --watch
stuff.
Bootstrap is made of two parts: CSS and javascript. So I want to use importmaps for the javascript part and rely on sprockets for the CSS compilation from SCSS.
Rails default
By default, Rails 7 provides a new option --css=bootstrap
,
but with my great surprise, this option adds both jsbundling-rails
, cssbundling-rails
, a package.json
and esbuild
.
Not as expected. Not what I want.
How to configure Rails and Bootstrap without nodejs
Default is not what I want, but I can still reach the goal and here I'll explain how:
Stick with just rails new myapp
This will setup exactly the tools I want: sprockets
and importmaps
. It will also setup automatically for me stimulus and turbo, which is great because I use them most of the time anyway.
Add bootstrap-rails
gem and enable the gem sassc-rails
in the Gemfile. This will allow us to compile bootstrap from SCSS without node.
You can simply import Bootstrap styles in app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss
:
// here your custom bootstrap variables...@import "bootstrap";
That's it for the CSS part. Running rails assets:precompile
will generate what you want.
For the javascript part we need to do three things:
- Precompile the bootstrap.min.js that comes with the gem, by adding to
config/initializers/assets.rb
Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( bootstrap.min.js popper.js )
- pin the compiled asset in
config/importmap.rb
:
pin "popper", to: 'popper.js', preload: truepin "bootstrap", to: 'bootstrap.min.js', preload: true
- Include bootstrap in your
app/javascript/application.js
:
import "popper"import "bootstrap"
I prefer this approach rather than pinning a CDN because we avoid diverging versions of Bootstrap.
Conclusion
This is all you need to have Bootstrap fully working on Rails 7 without using node.
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Original Link: https://dev.to/coorasse/rails-7-bootstrap-5-and-importmaps-without-nodejs-4g8
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