Published: January 05, 2017 • 2 min read
We’ve been building a Phoenix application lately; here’s the backstory.
Today I stared porting the Sprinkles of JavaScript™ to our ongoing Phoenix port, which is now alive. Some of that legacy JavaScript code required jQuery, so I needed to figure out how to get that library into the project.
Here are the steps I took.
Add jQuery as a dependency to your package.json
.
// package.json
"dependencies": {
"jquery": ">= 2.1"
}
Install and save with:
$ npm intstall --save
Next, expose jQuery globally:
// brunch-config.js
npm: {
enabled: true,
globals: {
$: 'jquery',
jQuery: 'jquery'
},
Finally, import your $
into the application assets, above any other imported
JavaScript that may use it:
// web/static/js/app.js
import $ from "jquery"
That’s it! Enjoy jQuery in your Phoenix application. Here’s the commit where I made these changes.
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