Documenting using other frontend bundlers for use with sidecar loading assets

[KonnorRogers]

I have an example repo here: https://github.com/ParamagicDev/rails7-view-component-sideload

but am unsure how to best add documentation on sidecar loading for non-webpacker based bundlers. The crux of it is glob importing, but im unsure how to best keep it generic without focusing on any particular tech. Any guidance would be appreciated.

[joelhawksley]

@ParamagicDev what if we added an esbuild section to https://viewcomponent.org/guide/javascript_and_css.html?

[Laykou]

Yes please. I was searching for esbuild integration on that page "Javascript and CSS".
Then I remembered that cool things appear on stimulus_reflex discord and I found that repo and this thread :)

Even just a link to that repo would help a lot :)

[KonnorRogers]

Somehow I totally missed this… @joelhawksley totally your call!

[Laykou]

I see there was some breaking change of watch parameter as of esbuild 0.17.

Here I found more info about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRQXPvJmw8

• some other example repo and config file: https://github.com/peterberkenbosch/rails-starter-template/blob/main/esbuild.config.mjs

This worked for me with the latest version of esbuild today

[joelhawksley]

@KonnorRogers would you be up for writing an esbuild section?

[joelhawksley]

We have opted to remove all CSS/JS guidance due to frequent churn in the state-of-the-art. Closing.