Vite Rails allows you to use Vite to power the frontend of your Rails app.

Vite is to frontend tooling as Ruby to programming, pure joy! 😍

Check an example app running on Heroku.

• 🤖 Automatic entrypoint detection
• ⚡️ Blazing fast hot reload
• 🚀 Zero-config deployments
• 🤝 Integrated with assets:precompile
• And more!

Visit the documentation website to check out the guides and searchable configuration reference.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'vite_rails'

Then, run:

bundle install
bin/rake vite:install

This will generate configuration files and a sample setup.

Additional installation instructions are available in the documentation website.

Restart your Rails server, and then run bin/vite to start the Vite development server.

Add the following your views/layouts/application.html.erb:

<%= vite_client_tag %>
<%= vite_javascript_tag 'application' %>

Visit any page and you should see a printed console output: Vite ⚡️ Rails.

For more guides and a full configuration reference, check the documentation website.

• webpacker
• vite

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.