Angular Directives require JQuery

[stormpath]

Angular Directives require JQuery

[robertjd]

Does this actually require you to have a jQuery library on the page? I thought Angular had some kind of internal "jQuery light" which provides the element API?

[voor]

Good question, I was essentially having problems without jQuery, and then everything worked when I added it in. I'll get some logs tomorrow and post them.

[evangelicaldev]

Angular comes with its own version of jQuery. There should be no problems using .show() or .hide() in the directive. I haven't had problems with Stormpath, or had to add jQuery. Here is what the Angular docs say about jQuery:

Does Angular use the jQuery library?
Yes, Angular can use jQuery if it's present in your app when the application is being bootstrapped. If jQuery is not present in your script path, Angular falls back to its own implementation of the subset of jQuery that we call jQLite.

Angular 1.3 only supports jQuery 2.1 or above. jQuery 1.7 and newer might work correctly with Angular but we don't guarantee that.

[bkyarger]

I think it does require jQuery for show() and hide(). On the docs for jqLite/angular.element it lists the supported methods and show/hide are not listed.

[evangelicaldev]

Yeah, I think you're right. However, I think that instead of resorting to jQuery, we probably should be using the ngHide and ngShow directives.

[bkyarger]

Yes, I agree. We would like to use this without having to include jQuery at all.

[timothyej]

Thanks @bkyarger! This SDK no longer depends on jQuery, so I'm closing this issue.