The time of endlessly waiting for webpack re-compiling is over. This is great.

i might not do rails anymore day to day, but i still always love watching DHH videos and him demonstrating the new hottest that will be shipped. it reminds me of the first video he ever did when he was introducing rails way back in 2004 or something. Keep up with the videos DHH... only thing I can recommend for them, is you need more "whoops" in them 🤣

This is awesome! Cant wait to put my hands on it and do an rm -rf node_modules

One of the beautiful thing things about this approach is that it works REALLY well with rails engines and gem assets.. which has been a nightmare (near impossible) with Webpack 👏

You are a true gem David!!! Keep up the good work 👏

Great stuff. Great thinking! Working with Rails since 2012, thank you very much for your work!

Unbelievable. Rails has become the best framework.

Thanks! I see that you solve things that are a bit complicated when it comes to javascript and that's very good.

Exiting news... I'm really looking forward to Rails 7

Amazing, good job David!

Very cool. Webpack has been a pain in my side. Looking forward to moving to something simpler, especially in regards to Rails engines/gems providing their own javascript.

Exciting stuff, thanks for the alpha preview!! Seems like some really awesome possibilities here; I'm starting to catch the vision 🚀 I'm still trying to wrap my head around using CDNs for dependencies, it feels a little uncomfortable at the moment but it might just be because I haven't thought that way before. It's certainly given me something to think about! Also, I'm definitely going to steal that bash alias of "r" for the "bin/rails" command that it looks like you have 🔥

This is great. Looking forward to start to use Rails 7 without webpack.

Awesome! Great to see that there is now an easy way to use vueJS with rails! Hype!!

Amazing! Simplicity is everything! 👏

Always wonderful Dev experience with Rails

Can't wait to try it!

This is great stuff David

This is great news! Thanks!

Wow love this video. Thanks for the information

that fighting image is really interesting for me. you guys fight apple but even use apple products to make this intros. I am cracked😂

This is really cool! Love Rails ;)

I've only just started working in Rails 7 with Hotwire a few weeks back, but I must say that this Rails version + the amazing speed of Ruby 3 for esp tests - it has done wonders for the joy of developing. I did Vue on Rails for years, and it is perfectly functional, but this just feels so much smoother. Config Hell is barely a thing. Im delighted for what Webpack was able to do for so long, but I would be lying if I said I'd miss it in the light of importmaps

Very nice video! Great explanations, and I love the overall style of it. I'm curious as to why you've mentioned that you might have difficulty using JSX, when you could just source Babel, and let it know to transpile whatever you wanted it to.

"Modern JavaScript in rails..." You had my curiosity "...without webpack" but now, now you have my attention

This is very neat!

This is so awesome... Great news..

Love the React Ideas

Tão incrível que quase chorei!

New hairstyle & new Rails style :) I like it. Just one question. What will you recommend for CSS (custom & lib css)? Sprockets?

This is so awesome! Can the ESM/importmap gems be backported to work with Rails 6 as well?

I luv Rails, The best framework, just missing, automatic server restart.

This is amazing! I'm looking forward to see Basecamp and HEY running on this new architecture. One question though.. Sprockets still takes care of minification?

I knowing that not going use the Webpack, I already stay happy 😁. Simply amazing. I really liked a lot. Bye Webpack!

This is Awesome..

Please make more videos like this. They are very informative and could help the community. Show more videos how you developing new things, best practices, refactoring.

i'd like my gravestone to read: "goodbye world. sad"

Finally. bye bye webpack, welcome importmap. I am so glad...

Sold on leaving Webpack which was just a nightmare in certain cases. Not sold about the CDN for the librairies.

Knew about this earlier via yo newsletter lol

thanks for this video, It's been released and I'm trying it now. a question is this just for js or does it affects also css?

OMG. Amazing !!!

Hahahaha, loved the David vs Goliath picture

Very nice , but as heroku is still pending HTTP2 support - this seems key in the decision to make it a default?

This is the way.

Pretty good video.

legendary

Awesome

it is a great video :)

HOLY SMOKES CANT BELIEVE MY EYES

what a tasty omakase thanks dhh

Goodbye Webpack!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥👍

Neat! What about working on the app with no internet connection (or issues)? CDN will make it impossible, no?

YAY!!!

that david and goliath picture :)

Leaving my job to pursue Master of Rails Development :)

I love that you see hundreds of devs using crazy IDE's or VSCode, etc all crazy looking and flashy. And then you see DHH just using TextMate 😂 This says volumes about his view on simplicity.

I didn't know browsers were ready for this

Nice to see modern approach! But is that true that development is possible only online because of CDNs usage? Or I missed something?

Finally, goodbye Webpack 👏👏👏

wow

It's nice that Rails is catching up to Laravel already. Laravel is like Rails' once nerdy younger sister who grew up to be a beauty queen.

If we change a js lib version, and few other libs depend on previous version, then we might need to manage these stuff manually ?

🥳

Dear Webpack: "get the f**k outta you here!".

With CDNs, how do we customize how much lib we want to include? For example what if I only want to import just Bootstrap's dropdown from Bootstrap's CDN.

What if we wrapped html body with a turbo and consider html/css content as a special model? Then, do we have a “hot reload” feature? It means that what we change on server html/css code will be push to local and re-render ???

you don't have to use npm or any javascript package manager, that part like me a lot, and app are ready to go easily

How to add TailwindCSS in rails 7 ? I still cannot find any tutorial how to add it

But what about TypeScript? Our rails stack has all JS done via TypeScript.

Is it safe to assume we'd still need webpack to use something like React that presumably still needs to be transpiled?

awsome cool feature, How to fit PWA application for rails application? Mobile android app TWA rails application how this technology are fit Rails application

The only thing i don't get: how hotwire will work with vue? Or we should only use one of them?

Do you ever unit test the javascript code? If yes could you provide an example how you do it with this approach?

Does it save js libraries locally? Sometimes there are corporate rules, that everything must be served locally and I would consider it to be painful to save it all manually. I may be in the opposition, but I actually like to work with node modules, I find it much easier to install and use packages. The only problem with webpack might be its configuration and time consuming bundling process for development. Speaking of this, I recently started to use Vite Ruby and I consider it superb. If I understand it correctly, it uses modules as in the video for development, but bundles the code for production and is easy to configure and so all the unpleasant things gone away with it. I actually don't even use Sprockets for styles or images and am using all assets under /assets dir with Vite.

Great video, but the example doesn't work. Trix can't show the image in the show action, it only show the image in the edit action...

Yesss ES6 finally Microsoft

Typescript ?

Soooooo now we are removing webpacker? Just as I recommended moving from the asset pipeline bc rails 6 moved from the asset pipeline to webpacker. :sigh:

I dunno I am not new to Rails but i can't able to use Vue in my Rails 7 project.

but why not ruby 3 ?

Just need run the app without install the packages after pull.

This is such a positive experience from the webpacker hell this whole fucking frontend industry is going towards. I'm so tired of having to COMPILE/TRANSPILE JS!

CDNs? What if we are 100% on premise?

Downloading the latest random JS library from a CDNs sounds like a huge security nightmare waiting to happen

No more bundling, except of course that random third party CDN you're relying on to perform your bundling. Meanwhile, you have no insight or control over your production app's dependency graph that would otherwise be generated from an npm lockfile. Why not just throw out your Gemfile while you're at it?

Using CDNs for JS libraries exclusively sounds like a GDPR and security nightmare waiting to happen.

CDN for libraries .... hmmm...

Great, I really hate the messy Javascript ecosystem and Webpack in particular... It goes against the principles of Rails. If other communities jump from the bridge, we don't have to follow them.

Can we pretty please fast-forward to Rails 9 so all that hotwire/stimulus/reflex gunk gets spit out too.

ERB color scheme is jarring

I'm not certain that this is the correct approach. Javascript and its ecosystem are becoming more dominant in development. Much more so than Ruby/Rails. So is the right strategy to try to avoid it as much as possible? I think the correct approach is to do the opposite. Rails needs to integrate Node and Webpack even more so that Rails won't become obsolete. Make React the default when scaffolding for example.

Typescript ?