Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition

Configuring Rails for Front-End Development

All the tools for Hotwire and our bundle are available as part of the options for a standard rails new command. I’ll talk about installing TypeScript in ​Adding TypeScript​ and React in Chapter 4, ​React​. We are not using not the default options for Rails, which I’ll talk about in Chapter 7, ​Bundling​.

For the project in this book, I started a new Rails project with this command (it’s a single line when you use it, but split here to fit on the page):

bundle exec rails new . -a propshaft -j esbuild
   --database postgresql --skip-test --css tailwind

This gives us a standard Rails application with the following overrides:

• We are using PostgreSQL as the database instead of the ...