installing Vite Ruby in a Rails 7 app with importmaps

[quaasi]

I have a Rails 7 app using importmaps. So no JS bundling tool needed so far. Will I have to switch from importmaps to say es-build in order to get Vite Ruby running?
I followed the setup guide and see the "Vite ⚡️ Rails" in the browser console. But no JS is loaded anymore.

[ElMassimo]

Hi Michael!

If you are referring to importmap-rails, you typically wouldn't combine it with Vite Ruby.

• Vite is meant to bundle in production for better performance
• importmap-rails is only useful if you don't want to use a tool like Webpack or Vite
• Installing npm packages is a nicer experience than pinning packages manually in importmap-rails

If for some reason you don't want to bundle certain libraries, you could try an import map plugin for Vite, but it's unusual, and I recommend that you try using plain Vite first.