Shun
Shun

Reputation: 31

Cannot call Bootstrap4 $('.carousel').carousel in Ruby on Rails 6 using Webpacker

I'm using Ruby on Rails 6 and webpacker. Tried to add carousel slide looks like this(Bootstrap 4 Card Slider)
However, when I clicked the button to show the next(or previous) slide, Uncaught TypeError: $(...).carousel is not a function popped up in the console. Even I write a script $('.carousel').carousel directly in the console, same error occurred.
I saw that loading JQuery multiple times causes similar error, but I don't know I did that.
Below are my codes. Any suggestion is helpful.

app/views/home_page/test.html.erb

<%= javascript_pack_tag "carousel" %>

<section class="container p-t-3">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-12">
            <h1>Bootstrap 4 Card Slider</h1>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>
<section class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel" id="postsCarousel">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-xs-12 text-md-right lead">
                <a class="btn btn-outline-secondary prev" href="" title="go back"><i class="fa fa-lg fa-chevron-left"></i></a>
                <a class="btn btn-outline-secondary next" href="" title="more"><i class="fa fa-lg fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="container p-t-0 m-t-2 carousel-inner">
        <div class="row row-equal carousel-item active m-t-0">
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="http://i.imgur.com/EW5FgJM.png" alt="Carousel 1">
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="http://i.imgur.com/Hw7sWGU.png" alt="Carousel 2">
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="http://i.imgur.com/g27lAMl.png" alt="Carousel 3">
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="row row-equal carousel-item m-t-0">
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="//visualhunt.com/photos/l/1/office-student-work-study.jpg" alt="Carousel 4">
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="//visualhunt.com/photos/l/1/working-woman-technology-computer.jpg" alt="Carousel 5">
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-3 fadeIn wow">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-img-top card-img-top-250">
                        <img class="img-fluid" src="//visualhunt.com/photos/l/1/people-office-team-collaboration.jpg" alt="Carousel 6">
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>

app/javascript/packs/carousel.js

(function($) {
    "use strict";

    // manual carousel controls
    $('.next').click(function(){ $('.carousel').carousel('next');return false; });
    $('.prev').click(function(){ $('.carousel').carousel('prev');return false; });

})(jQuery);

config/webpack/environment.js

const { environment } = require('@rails/webpacker')
const webpack = require('webpack')
environment.plugins.prepend(
  'Provide',
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery/src/jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery/src/jquery',
    jquery: 'jquery/src/jquery',
    Popper: 'popper.js'
  })
)
module.exports = environment

app/javascript/packs/application.js

require("@rails/ujs").start()
require("turbolinks").start()
require("@rails/activestorage").start()
require("channels")
require("trix")
require("@rails/actiontext")

import '../src/application'
import 'bootstrap'

app/javascript/src/application.scss

@import '~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap';

package.json

{
  "name": "sample",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@rails/actioncable": "^6.0.0",
    "@rails/actiontext": "^6.0.2-1",
    "@rails/activestorage": "^6.0.0",
    "@rails/ujs": "^6.0.0",
    "@rails/webpacker": "4.2.2",
    "bootstrap": "4.3.1",
    "jquery": "^3.4.1",
    "popper.js": "^1.16.1",
    "trix": "^1.0.0",
    "turbolinks": "^5.2.0"
  },
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "webpack-dev-server": "^3.10.1"
  }
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 560

Answers (1)

Ben Trewern
Ben Trewern

Reputation: 1740

I have the following in my environment.js:

const { environment } = require('@rails/webpacker')

const webpack = require('webpack')
environment.plugins.prepend('Provide',
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    Popper: ['popper.js', 'default']
  })
)

module.exports = environment

which makes jquery work with webpacker.

Then in your application.scss

@import '~bootstrap';

Next your test.html.rb is in a bit of a mess. This is a cut down version that works without the cards and other styling:

<section class="container">
  <h1>Bootstrap 4 Card Slider</h1>
</section>
<section class="container">

  <a class="btn btn-lg" href="#carouselExample" role="button" data-slide="prev">
    <span> &laquo; </span>
  </a>
  <a class="btn btn-lg" href="#carouselExample" role="button" data-slide="next">
    <span> &raquo; </span>
  </a>

  <div id="carouselExample" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
    <div class="carousel-inner">
      <div class="carousel-item active">
        <img class="d-block w-100" src="http://i.imgur.com/EW5FgJM.png" alt="First slide">
      </div>
      <div class="carousel-item">
        <img class="d-block w-100" src="http://i.imgur.com/Hw7sWGU.png" alt="Second slide">
      </div>
      <div class="carousel-item">
        <img class="d-block w-100" src="http://i.imgur.com/g27lAMl.png" alt="Third slide">
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

This uses data attributes so you don't need any of the javascript in carousel.js. Get something like this to work and then add your cards and styling back in.

Upvotes: 2

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