Make jQuery releases available via npm

[Rick Waldron]

Recently, Domenic Denicola expressed a need for npm to offer "just jQuery", this due to all the existing jQuery-related packages are jQuery plus something else, which is useless if you want to use npm for client libs as well (which is a valuable use case)

Isaac Schlueter has reached out to the "jquery" and "jQuery" package owners to see if any are willing to give us the name to release jQuery on npm.

TODO:

1. Update window.jQuery = window.$ = jQuery; to conditionally export to module.exports or window as needed.
2. Change the reference to window (in #1) to a safe global object reference.
3. Update jQuery Core Release Management to include an npm publish

[Rick Waldron]

PR submitted by Isaac Schlueter ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1103

[dmethvin]

Agreed on the utility. We need some unit tests or other insurance against inadvertent regressions.

[Rick Waldron]

The current PR will break if there is some other object called module with an exports property. This gist illustrates a bulletproof "node detector": ​https://gist.github.com/3906504

[dcherman]

Is there a good reason to not expose jQuery/$ as a global when an AMD loader is present like the current PR does? That's a breaking change FWIW.

For comparison, other AMD compatible utilities like Lodash, Hogan.js, and the Backbone/Underscore AMD versions maintained by jrburke still create a global even in the presence of an AMD loader.

[oost]

Replying to rwaldron:

The current PR will break if there is some other object called module with an exports property. This gist illustrates a bulletproof "node detector": ​https://gist.github.com/3906504

Wouldn't this also apply if 'define' is previously defined ? Given that both AMD and CommonJS export type (including nodejs' quirky one) are well defined standards, it seems fair to support both equally and to require other other coding paradigms to stay clear of those standard, doesn't it ?

Regarding the node detector, while it might be a nice solution it does look a little hacky and too node.js specific. What about other commonjs like implementations ?

[dmethvin]

@rwaldron, did you plan on getting this done by 2.0?

[m_gol]

What's the current status of work on this feature?

[Rick Waldron]

@m_gol the current status is that I'm working on it...

[m_gol]

See: ​http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13760

[m_gol]

It was decided we want that for jQuery 2.1.

[Timmy Willison]

(In #14451) @jzaefferer: Completing the release script will allow #13119 to be closed. I'll add that ticket to blocking.

[m_gol]

I guess it should be re-assigned to timmywil, right?

[m_gol]

Should we unpublish ​https://npmjs.org/package/jQuery? It introduces additional noise and confuses users.

What do you think, isaacs?

[m_gol]

jQuery 2.1.0-beta2 has been published to npm. \o/

Please, test & report issues with the package, if any.

[Timmy Willison]

Assigning to myself as a reminder to follow up concerning the "jQuery" repo.

[anonymous]

any news?

[m_gol]

Replying to anonymous:

any news?

This is done: ​https://npmjs.org/package/jquery

Please, test if you're interested so that we can see if everything is OK *before* releasing the final version.

[Timmy Willison]

Closing as no more work need be done to ensure the final release goes on NPM.

[christoph.burgmer@…]

The packaged version does not work in the browser. I receive the following error:

ReferenceError: module is not defined module.exports = create('undefined' === typeof window ? undefined : window);

My expectation: jquery installed via npm should be easy to reference from a web page.

A UMD wrapper might be a technically sound way of solving this.

[m_gol]

Replying to christoph.burgmer@…:

The packaged version does not work in the browser. I receive the following error:

ReferenceError: module is not defined module.exports = create('undefined' === typeof window ? undefined : window);

My expectation: jquery installed via npm should be easy to reference from a web page.

We need more information about the problem, that doesn't say much... Specifically: how are you installing jQuery, how do you include it in a web page, how do you refer to it, what tools do you use to manage jQuery etc.