Using Vite Ruby, Vite Conf 2024

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1. Irina Nazarova, Vite Conf 2024 Using Vite Ruby
2. Ruby is a quiet giant
3. Startups on Rails
4. Rails frontend options -API-mode Rails with React/Svelte/Vue/Astro app -Templates and HTML-over-the-wire: Hotwire, Stimulus, View Component, Phlex -Mixed mode: React/Svelte/Vue/.. views, or components, inside Rails frontend: Inertia.js, Turbo Mount
5. Asset pipeline is hard 🚩🚩🚩 “We need a FrontOps here!” Marco Roth, Rails Conf 2024
6. ⚡ Products for developers ⚡ Startups on Rails ⚡ Realtime and collaboration-heavy apps ⚡ Local- fi rst apps Irina Nazarova CEO Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products
7. We build the missing open-source tooling for startups evilmartians.com/opensource
8. Asset pipeline is hard 🚩🚩🚩 “We need a FrontOps here!”
9. No-build? Rails World 2023 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
10. “I have not been able to deploy to Heroku, because my importmaps are not loading properly and I can’t for the life of me fi gure out the issue” No build Story from last week
11. The ethos of Rails
12. Asset pipeline is hard 🚩🚩🚩 “We need a FrontOps here!” Marco Roth, Rails Conf 2024
13. The ethos of Rails:
14. The ethos of Rails: missing abstraction
15. No-build?
16. We advocate for Vite and Vite Ruby Our Turbo Mount and Inertia.js generators are a part of the Vite❤Rails ecosystem
18. “I have not been able to deploy to Heroku, because my importmaps are not loading properly and I can’t for the life of me fi gure out the issue” Vite Ruby No build “I got it after a couple of hours yesterday!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!” Story from last week
19. Why choose Vite
20. “We needed a faster compilation time for our assets” Power Home Remodelling $1B+ revenue company
21. “Works so well we don’t even think about it anymore” ClickFunnels $160M+ revenue company
22. “Vite has brought us the hot-reloading of Stimulus controllers”
23. “Vite combines the best aspects of Rollup and ESBuild”
24. When we have a complex situation, building a custom plugin helps!
25. Vite is a joy to use
26. What’s missing?
27. Timely updates “The Vite Ruby gem does not update as frequently as the Vite JS package, leading to some inconsistencies between the JS package and the Ruby gem” What’s missing Incremental builds Incremental builds via a persistent build cache that can be reused across builds, out-of-the-box Advanced entrypoint setup “We had issues trying to use 1 con fi g to serve 2 di ff erent entry points without chunking shared libraries/code” Integration with Vitest To have Vitest come together with Vite Ruby, using the same con fi guration
28. Vite❤Rails
29. Thank you! x.com/inazarova in@evl.ms