Cannot import properly in a vite environment

[jrochkind]

Cannot import properly in a vite environment

[tkirda]

I think you are right regarding: loading a second copy of jQuery and installing the plugin in that .

If this is bundling in the server side, then it will load jquery via require('jquery') and will use that instance.

[jrochkind]

Thanks @tkirda -- it's hard to figure out how to avoid that, since in a vite environment require isn't even available in my actual local JS code... it's confusingly somehow available via the build process only in dependencies I guess(?), where the build translates from commonJS require to ES6 import... but in a way that (apparently) results in a different copy of JQuery referred to in the autocomplete require than in my own code when I do an import.

Basically the autocomplete code trying to auto-detect what kind of a build environemnt it's in and where to find the jQuery to add the plugin to -- is failing in a modern environment.

I think the only reasonable fix would be providing some way for the consumer to manually specify the jQuery it wants autocomplete plugin added to, when loading jquery-autocomplete. Right now there is no way to do that, there is just a single JS file which insists on auto-detecting. I'm not myself sure how that could be added in a simple non-disruptive backwards-compat way though without making any significant code changes nobody has appetite for here.

[tkirda]

I'm open for suggestions or PR on how this could be improved. This project is not actively maintained.