Awesome Inertia Rails

A curated list of community resources, tools, and content for Inertia Rails.

Starter kits (alphabetical)

• GrowthX Starter Kit - Rails 8 + React 19 + Inertia.js + Shadcn/UI Starter Kit from GrowthX.ai
• Inertia Rails Starter Kits — Official starter kits for React, Vue, and Svelte (TypeScript, shadcn/ui)
• Kaze — Rails authentication scaffolding (Hotwire/React/Vue)
• Kickstart — Rails application starter kits, Inertia-based (React, Svelte, Vue) and classic (API, esbuild and importmaps)
• Svelte starter template — Svelte starter template (Svelte, shadcn/ui)

Packages (alphabetical)

Inertia-specific

• Alba::Inertia — Seamless integration between Alba serializers and Inertia Rails
• Inertia Modal — Open any route in a Modal or Slideover without having to change anything about your existing routes or controllers (React, Vue)
• Inertia X — Svelte-only fork of Inertia with additional features (Svelte)
• InertiaBuilder — JBuilder-like DSL for declaring Inertia.js props
• InertiaCable — Real-time prop updates for Inertia.js Rails apps using ActionCable
• InertiaI18n — Translation management bridging Rails YAML and frontend i18next JSON
• useInertiaForm — Direct replacement of Inertia's useForm hook with support for nested forms (React)

General

• JS From Routes — Generate path helpers and API methods from your Rails routes
• JsRoutes — Brings Rails named routes to JavaScript
• Typelizer — A TypeScript type generator for Ruby serializers
• types_from_serializers — Generate TypeScript interfaces from your JSON serializers

Articles (newest first)

• Optimistic UI in Rails with optimism... and Inertia — Deep dive by Svyatoslav Kryukov (2026)
• Redprints CFP: an open source CFP management app built with Rails + Inertia.js — Deep dive by Vladimir Dementyev (2025)
• Simplicity, vanished?! Solving the mystery with Inertia.js + Rails — Deep dive by Svyatoslav Kryukov (2025)
• Building Filters with Inertia.js and Rails: A Clean Approach — Guide by Pedro Duarte (2025)
• How to Build a Twitter Clone with Rails 8 Inertia and React — Tutorial by Rob Race (2025)
• How to Handle Bundle Size in Inertia.js — Guide by Pedro Duarte (2025)
• How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails & Inertia.js — Deep dive by Adam Fortuna (2025)
• Building an InertiaJS app with Rails — Tutorial by Exequiel Rozas (2025)
• Inertial Rails project setup to use code generated from v0 (ShadcnUI, TailwindCSS4, React, TypeScript) and deploy with Kamal — Guide by Tom Ho (2025)
• Keeping Rails cool: the modern frontend toolkit — Deep dive by Irina Nazarova (2024)
• Inertia.js in Rails: a new era of effortless integration — Deep dive by Svyatoslav Kryukov (2024)

Videos and talks (newest first)

• Inertia Rails Workshop — SF Ruby Conference 2025 workshop by Brandon Shar, Svyatoslav Kryukov, and Brian Knoles (demo app)
• Optimistic Drawer UI with Inertia.js and Rails — by Brian Knoles (2025)
• Optimistic UI Updates with Inertia.js and Rails — by Brian Knoles (2025)
• The Best of Both Worlds: InertiaJS + React + Rails — by Colleen Schnettler (2025)
• Tropical on Rails 2025: Defying Front-End Inertia — Conference talk by Svyatoslav Kryukov (2025)
• Ken Greeff's YouTube channel — Fresh Inertia Rails content (2025)
• InertiaJS on Rails — YouTube course by Brandon Shar (2021)
• RailsConf 2021: Inertia.js on Rails Lightning Talk — Conference talk by Brandon Shar (2021)

Example applications (alphabetical)

Open source

• Code Basics — Free online programming courses. Code available on GitHub
• Redprints CFP — Open source CFP management app built with Rails and Inertia.js

Demo

• Ruby on Rails/Vue by Georg Ledermann
• Ruby on Rails/Vue SSR/Vite by Máximo Mussini

Production

• Calm Companies — Get weekly emails when companies with a great work culture are hiring
• Clipflow — Project management for content creators
• Crevio — All-In-One creator store
• Hardcover — A social network for book lovers
• OG Pilot — A dynamic Open Graph image generator tool
• Switch Kanban — Project management tool for software houses

Other (alphabetical)

• Inertia Rails Skills — Agent skills and best practices for AI coding assistants working with Inertia Rails
• Inertia.js devtools — Inertia.js page JSON in devtools panel

Community

• X.com — Official X account
• Discord — Official Discord server
• Reddit — Inertia.js subreddit

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