Rails 7: How can I remove Turbo completely?

Question

I have a Rails 7 application. After some development I see that Turbo (Hotwired) creates too many issues and I don't need it for this application.

Is there any way to remove Turbo completely from an existing Rails app?

What is the recommended way to remove it?

Professionalize

Answer 1

You need to remove gem "turbo-rails" from the Gemfile, run bundle install to update the dependencies. Also run

bin/importmap unpin @hotwired/turbo-rails
bin/importmap unpin @hotwired/stimulus
bin/importmap unpin @hotwired/stimulus-loading

and remove import "@hotwired/turbo-rails" from app/javascript/application.js

Galangal

Also remove "data-turbo-track": "reload" from your stylesheet_link_tag in your application.html.erb. – Svend

In order for Jquery to work you also need to remove (or otherwise deal with...but I removed it) the gem "stimulus-rails" gem, which works with Turbo. – Svend

Answer 2

If you are creating a brand new Rails app, you can also do this with the --skip-hotwire option on rails new:

rails new --skip-hotwire

Claud