How to use jQuery with SPFx projects
jQuery is a JavaScript library that helped to shape the internet we all know today, even though it’s first release was 13 years ago and despite the fact we now have access to other powerful libraries like React and Angular, jQuery is still used by 80% of the top 1M sites in the web.
With SharePoint framework you can use pretty much any JavaScript library to build your application however you will need to know how to make them available in the solution.
In this article I’ll explain you how to add jQuery to your SPFx solutions using 2 different methods.