Using Rails-UJS in JS modules (Rails 6 with webpacker)

in my app/javascript/packs/application.js:

import Rails from '@rails/ujs';
Rails.start();

and then in whatever module, controller, component I'm writing:

import Rails from '@rails/ujs';

First at all, using yarn add rails/ujs:

yarn add  @rails/ujs

And add to config/webpack/environment.js

const webpack = require('webpack')
environment.plugins.prepend('Provide',
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    Popper: ['popper.js', 'default'],
    toastr: 'toastr/toastr',
    ApexCharts: ['apexcharts', 'default'],
    underscore: ['underscore', 'm'],
    Rails: ['@rails/ujs']
  })
)
module.exports = environment

Config and load Rails js.

# pack/application.js
require("@rails/ujs").start()
global.Rails = Rails;

And Then: This is result ->

Just add it to your environment.js file, here is mine (with bootstrap and jquery):

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

module.exports = environment

environment.plugins.prepend(
    'Provide',
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
        $: 'jquery',
        jQuery: 'jquery',
        jquery: 'jquery',
        'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
        "window.$": "jquery",
        Popper: ['popper.js', 'default'],
        Rails: ['@rails/ujs']
    })
)

I am currently messing around on 6.0.0.rc2 but I think I got an answer for you.

So if you separate out the:

app/javascript/packs/application.js

require("@rails/ujs").start()
import "controllers"

To instead:

export const rails_ujs = require("@rails/ujs")
console.log(rails_ujs)
rails_ujs.start()

You can obviously remove that console.log was just trying to figure things out. Then in your stimulus controller you can simply do:

// Visit The Stimulus Handbook for more details
// https://stimulusjs.org/handbook/introduction
//
// This example controller works with specially annotated HTML like:
//
// <div data-controller="hello">
//   <h1 data-target="hello.output"></h1>
// </div>

import { Controller } from "stimulus"
import { rails_ujs } from "packs/application.js"

export default class extends Controller {
  static targets = [ "output" ]

  connect() {
    // this.outputTarget.textContent = 'Hello, Stimulus!'
    console.log('hi')
    console.log(rails_ujs)
  }
}

Just using their little test controller here but I got it to console.log out and you can call rails_ujs.fire so that should be what you want :)

Let me know if this works for you!