Moving away from importmaps to esbuild in Rails 7

I’ve hit a snag recently with Safari and support for importmaps in Rails 7. Rather than spend valuable time trying to debug this and fix it, I'd prefer to migrate to using Esbuild, as I believe that’s generally a more stable way to handle JavaScript bundling at this point in time.

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[PRICEX]

Wow thank you for posting this. I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my import maps are screwed up.

[sacrac]

Hi you know the similar video about moving away from webpacker to esbuild in rails 7? Your video is clear to understand

[shrig]

Thanks for the great videos! appreciate them

[fargo]

Could you please create a video on how to handle hotwire turbo frames errors? Pretty Please! 😄

[krzysztofwawer]

What version of Safari you have been using? Safari has support for import maps

[yoni-]

Can you share more information about your issue? I'm pretty sure that the rails team or someone has that figured out. Like a technical post on stackoverflow or an issue on github would go a long way to clarify this issue. Coming out with a video that just states that importmaps doesnt work on safari is a huge deal and I think does a dis-service to the rails community, without specifying details which would allow it to be addressed.

[mateuszbialowas]

I checked for my app, and js working on Safari with import maps for me.

[EricChua-gmin]

I assume your twitter course is based on importmap?

[vwscojk]

terrible solution. going for a bundler is not a fix. you should simply rollback if a release broke something. latest is not always the greatest.