Importing other function in Stimulus controller

Question

In a Stimulus controller in Rails 7 I am importing functions from another js file in my /javascript directory

import * as myHelpers from "../helpers/my_helpers.js";

This works fine in development, but in production I get a 404 for the included file as it is being looked for at /assets/helpers/my_helpers.js . Do the javascript controllers move in production? Is there a way to reference this file?

Answer 1

I got this working by using the import map config/importmap.rb:

pin_all_from "app/javascript/helpers", under: "helpers"

And then in the controller

import * as myHelpers from "helpers/my_helpers";