jekyll-importmap

A plugin that implements importmaps for Jekyll

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jekyll-importmap

A plugin that implementing importmaps for jekyll

How it works

Heavily borrowed from the importmap-rails gem (a lot of parts copied), minus the rails parts and simplified to make a lot easier to understand.

Setup

Add to Gemfile via bundler

bundle add jekyll-importmap

Add to your _config.yml

  plugins:
    - jekyll-importmap

Add to your layout

<html>
    <head>
        {% importmap %}
    </head>
...

Create your importmap.rb file in the root directory

pin 'application', to: 'assets/js/application.js', preload: true

During Development

During development you must set a url to use as an override instead of using url and baseurl

importmap:
  devurl: 'https://127.0.0.1:4000/jekyll-importmap'

When committing to production comment it out!

# importmap:
#   devurl: 'https://127.0.0.1:4000/jekyll-importmap'

Importmap config

Uses the exact same syntax as the importmap-rails gem.

Usage

This plugin creates a javascript importmap and also an import statement that looks for a module called application. Make sure that you have added this to your importmap. This is the entry point of your application and you can import everything from here.

pin 'application', to: 'assets/js/application.js', preload: true

And don't forget to specify to and under when using pin_all_from

pin_all_from "assets/js/controllers", to: "assets/js/controllers", under: "controllers"

Example for StimulusJS

importmap.rb

pin 'application', to: 'assets/js/application.js', preload: true
pin "@hotwired/stimulus", to: "https://ga.jspm.io/npm:@hotwired/[email protected]/dist/stimulus.js", preload: true
pin "@hotwired/stimulus-loading", to: "assets/js/stimulus-loading.js", preload: true
pin_all_from "assets/js/controllers", to: "assets/js/controllers", under: "controllers"
pin "flatpickr", to: "https://ga.jspm.io/npm:[email protected]/dist/esm/index.js"
pin "stimulus-flatpickr", to: "https://ga.jspm.io/npm:[email protected]/dist/index.m.js"

assets/js/application.js

import 'controllers'

assets/js/controllers/index.js

import { Application } from "@hotwired/stimulus"
import { eagerLoadControllersFrom } from "@hotwired/stimulus-loading"
import Flatpickr from 'stimulus-flatpickr'

const application = Application.start()
application.register('flatpickr', Flatpickr)

// Configure Stimulus development experience
application.debug = false
window.Stimulus   = application
eagerLoadControllersFrom("controllers", application)

assets/js/controllers/flatpickr_controller.js

import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"
import Flatpickr from 'stimulus-flatpickr'

// Connects to data-controller="flatpickr"
export default class extends Flatpickr {
  connect() {
    this.config = {
      plugins: [],
      enableTime: true,
    }
    super.connect()
  }
}

assets/js/stimulus-loading.js

// content from https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus-rails/blob/ae4b675473b71fdf01530c8a6a3bb277d3388ee2/app/assets/javascripts/stimulus-loading.js

index.html

<div data-controller="flatpickr"></div>

Contributing

You're actively encouraged to create issues and pull requests.

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