Drifting Ruby

From Webpacker to esbuild

#319 Oct 17, 2021 pro

With Rails 7 coming out soon, it's a good time to look at what it could take to upgrade our existing applications to esbuild. In this episode, we start with a Rails 6 application and begin the upgrade process by removing Webpacker and switching over to esbuild.

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Modern Chat Feature

#318 Oct 10, 2021 pro

In this episode, we create a chat application using Rails 7, esbuild (JS Bundling), CSS Bundling, Hotwire, and Action Text. We also dive into some issues around CSS Bundling and Action Text.

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esbuild for Rails

#313 Sep 5, 2021 free

Use esbuild to bundle your JavaScript, then deliver it via the asset pipeline in Rails. This gem provides an installer to get you going with esbuild in a new Rails application.

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Importmaps in Rails 7

#312 Sep 5, 2021 free

Import maps let you import JavaScript modules using logical names that map to versioned/digested files – directly from the browser. This will be a default in the upcoming Rails 7.

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Drag and Drop with Hotwire

#311 Aug 29, 2021 pro

Acts as List provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list. In combination with SortableJS and Hotwire (Stimulus), we can create a positionable list with ease.

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Slim Select with Stimulus

#308 Aug 8, 2021 pro

Using Stimulus and Slim Select, we can get performant results quickly and efficiently.

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Hotwire Turbo Replacing Rails UJS

#307 Aug 1, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at some common functionality that we got with Rails UJS and what it looks like to reimplement these with Hotwire's Turbo and StimulusJS.

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Cropping Active Storage Uploads

#280 Jan 24, 2021 pro

Cropping images can be hard and there can be quite a few complications. In this episode, we have a look at using StimulusJS to crop images uploaded through Active Storage.

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Direct Upload Instantly

#279 Jan 17, 2021 pro

Learn how to select files and trigger them to upload to Active Storage instantly.

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Creating and Reading QR Codes

#278 Jan 10, 2021 pro

Reading QR Codes can be a tricky task. We look at being able to generate QR Codes on our Ruby on Rails backend and read them on the client side using a couple of libraries and Stimulus JS.

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