Document Support for Esbuild

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#1,149 opened on Nov 15, 2021 31 comments 16 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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Since Dec 26, 2022.

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Rails 7 seems to be moving away from webpack(er), with multiple options to bundle JS with the new js-bundling gem (e.g. with ESbuild etc.).

As such, in order to future proof the project, it might make sense to add support/documentation for JS bundling solutions other than webpack.

Notably, require.context() is webpack specific. I have managed to work around this by providing a mapping manually with ESbuild:

var ReactRailsUJS = require('react_ujs');
ReactRailsUJS.useContext({
  Table: require('./components/Table'),
});

As such, simply removing require.context() meant that I was able to successfully use react-rails with ESbuild.

This took quite some time to work out - as such, it would be useful to document this (or a better solution) somewhere.

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