CoffeeScript Transpilation

[Splines]

For our MaMpf codebase, we finally try to get away from the retired webpacker (yes, it's high time). Thanks a lot for this Vite Ruby project, the documentation looks very promising so far.

One annoyance we encounter is that our codebase is still sprinkled by a lot of .coffee (CoffeeScript) files. And getting away from them entirely is a huge effort. So far, these files were included in the webpacker pipeline via a separate plugin.

Now onto Vite Ruby. I'm currently looking for a similar plugin that transpiles those CoffeeScript files for me. Can I use any plugin that works for Vite also for Vite Ruby? Or are there restrictions I should watch out for? Thanks a lot.

[ElMassimo]

Hi Dominic!

Any Vite plugin that can process Coffeescript files should do the trick.

A potential difference between Webpack and Vite is that imports should include the .coffee extension, although there are configuration options to avoid that (which I don't recommend because it slows down file lookup).

[Splines]

ok perfect, thanks