jquery-ui and webpack, how to manage it into module?

Question

any idea how to deal with that ? I mean jquery-ui seems not to be amd and I don't know how to manage that , any idea ?

Answer 1

I have looked through many forums and websites with descriptions and solutions to this problem. Unfortunately, none of the answers seemed correct or caused other problems, and that was not the point. That's why I started looking for my own solution. Here is my solution to this problem.

In my application I use webpack and several pages, not mal, each with a different entry. Because not every website requires certain libraries and there is no point in adding them there. I use autocomplet with jQuery-ui on several sites and unfortunately, despite adding this library via yarn or npm to the project, sites using autocomplete reported that autocomplete is not a function, i.e. they do not recognize it. To get around this, I added something like this in e.g. app.js file:

import autocomplete from 'jquery-ui/ui/widgets/autocomplete';
window.autocomplete = autocomplete;

Of course, the jQuery-ui library must also be added:

import 'jquery-ui';

This solution worked for me. I hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

You should import all of these and check which ones you really need.

require('jquery-ui/ui/core.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/data.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/form.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/form-reset-mixin.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/focusable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/disable-selection.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/plugin.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/labels.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/position.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/scroll-parent.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/tabbable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/unique-id.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widget.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/accordion.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/autocomplete.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/button.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/checkboxradio.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/controlgroup.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/datepicker.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/dialog.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/draggable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/droppable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/menu.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/mouse.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/progressbar.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/resizable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/selectable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/selectmenu.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/slider.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/sortable.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/spinner.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/tabs.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/widgets/tooltip.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effect.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-blind.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-bounce.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-clip.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-drop.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-explode.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-fade.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-fold.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-highlight.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-puff.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-pulsate.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-scale.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-shake.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-size.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-slide.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/effects/effect-transfer.js');
require('jquery-ui/ui/vendor/jquery-color/jquery.color.js');

Answer 3

add jquery in your node_modules using;

npm install --save jquery jquery-ui

and add externals in your webpack.config.js like;

...

  externals: {
// require("jquery") is external and available
//  on the global var jQuery
"jquery": "jQuery",
"jquery-ui": "jquery-ui/jquery-ui.js", 
}

it worked for me

Answer 4

The steps that worked for me (in a Rails 5.1.6 project) aren't identical to any of the above:

Install jquery and jquery-ui: yarn add jquery and yarn add jquery-ui

Add the following to the webpack config (i.e. in /config/webpack/environment.js) to globally set $ and jquery and jQuery:

environment.plugins.prepend(
  'Provide',
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    jquery: 'jquery'
  })
)

Require whichever individual jquery-ui package(s) you want, at the top of your pack (e.g at the top of /javascript/packs/application.js:

require("jquery-ui/ui/widgets/sortable")

Then you can call, for example, $('.selector').sortable() anywhere in your pack.

Answer 5

webpack-jquery-ui

webpack-jquery-ui - use this plugin, e.g. if you use Rails 5, run

 yarn add webpack-jquery-ui

When jQuery UI plugin starts, it checks if jquery provided, so

Add this code to your webpacker configuration file (shared.js - if you use it with Rails 5)

plugins: [
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
      $: "jquery",
      jQuery: "jquery",
      "window.jQuery": "jquery'",
      "window.$": "jquery"
  })
]

Add these lines into your app code.

require('webpack-jquery-ui');
require('webpack-jquery-ui/css');

to fix ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in jquery.ajax

You have to pass an authenticity_token parameter with all your PUT, POST and DELETE requests.

To do that you can usually fetch it from the header with $('[name="csrf-token"]')[0].content

So your request would look something like:

var that = this;
$.ajax({
  url: navigator_item.url,
  data: { authenticity_token: $('[name="csrf-token"]')[0].content},
  method: 'DELETE',
  success: function(res) {
   ...
  }
});

I include jQuery into my application in another way

Instead of using:

plugins: [
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({...

You should add 'jquery': 'jquery/src/jquery' to aliases in the webpack config file:

module.exports = {
  resolve: {
    alias: {
        'jquery': 'jquery/src/jquery'
    }
  }

It will provide module name 'jquery'. jQuery UI checks this name on init.

Then in you app.js file you write:

import $ from 'jquery'

import 'webpack-jquery-ui/css'
import 'webpack-jquery-ui/sortable' // if you need only sortable widget.

window.jQuery = $;
window.$ = $; // lazy fix if you want to use jQuery in your inline scripts.

Answer 6

youre in luck I did this just that yesterday, it's rather easy.

npm install --save jquery jquery-ui

Make sure that you have jquery aliased to resolve with the plugin in the webpack.config.js

...
plugins: [
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
      "$":"jquery",
      "jQuery":"jquery",
      "window.jQuery":"jquery"
    }),
...

Then include two aliases in the webpack.config.js

1. The node_modules folder
2. The jquery-ui folder

``````

resolve : {
    alias: {
      // bind version of jquery-ui
      "jquery-ui": "jquery-ui/jquery-ui.js",      
      // bind to modules;
      modules: path.join(__dirname, "node_modules"),

Make sure that jquery gets loaded first in your app startup file.

var $ = require("jquery"),
        require("jquery-ui");

If you need to use a theme configure the css-loader and the file-loader. Don't forget to npm install those loaders.

module: {
    loaders: [
      { test: /\.css$/, loader: "style!css" },
      { test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$/i, loader:"file" },

And use in your app startup file.

require("modules/jquery-ui/themes/black-tie/jquery-ui.css");
require("modules/jquery-ui/themes/black-tie/jquery-ui.theme.css");

Answer 7

For some reason jquery-ui didn't play nice with webpack. I had to require jquery-ui-bundle instead.

npm i -S jquery-ui-bundle

and then require it after jquery e.g.

require('jquery');
require('jquery-ui-bundle');

Answer 8

jquery-ui-dist and jquery-ui-bundle do not seem to be maintained by the jquery-ui team. After jquery-ui v1.12 Its possible to use the official jquery-ui package from npm with webpack.

Update jquery-ui to 1.12 by updating package.json and npm install.

Then you can require each widget like this.

require("jquery-ui/ui/widgets/autocomplete");
require("jquery-ui/ui/widgets/draggable");

If you have used require("jquery-ui") before you need to replace it with separate imports for each widget. I think the new way is better because it will bundle only the code for the widget we need to use.

See documentation on using the 1.12 official npm package.

Answer 9

The accepted answer doesn't work for me as the jQuery-ui package on NPM isn't pre-built and therefore doesn't contain jquery-ui.js; the package will either need built before use or all the widgets included/used individually.

Quickest way I got the whole package working was by first downloading the distributable version:

npm install jquery-ui-dist --save

I needed to add an alias for jquery-ui-dist to avoid a 'Cannot find module' error (using just require('jquery-ui-dist') won't work, because the .js filename is different), by adding this to webpack.config.js:

resolve: {
    alias: {
        'jquery-ui': 'jquery-ui-dist/jquery-ui.js'
    }
},

Finally, you can use this in the .js file where the modules are loaded:

var jQuery = require('jquery');
require('jquery-ui'); 

Alternatively, you can avoid having to require the scripts when loading the modules, and having to declare jQuery as a variable, by using ProvidePlugin in your webpack.config.js:

 plugins: [
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
        'jQuery': 'jquery',
        '$': 'jquery',
        'global.jQuery': 'jquery'
    })
],