How to add jquery third party plugin in rails 6 webpacker

Question

I know its simple but with update of rails 6. there is new syntax in rails 6 for manage javascript assets which is maintained by webpacker.

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Answer 1

to resolve jquery third party plugin issue add jquery via yarn

yarn add jquery

for adding jquery support in rails 6 application first we need to add below configuration

# app/config/webpack/environment.js
const {environment} = require('@rails/webpacker');

const webpack = require('webpack');
environment.plugins.append('Provide', new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
  $: 'jquery',
  jQuery: 'jquery' # or if its not work specify path `'jquery/src/jquery'` which node_modules path for jquery
}));

module.exports = environment;

for import any jquery related plugin in app/javascripts/packs/application.js

use below instructions

import 'bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap';
import 'bootstrap-daterangepicker/daterangepicker'

updated with expose-loader for jQuery

yarn add expose-loader

Then add this to config/webpack/environment.js

   environment.loaders.append('jquery', {
      test: require.resolve('jquery'),
      use: [{
        loader: 'expose-loader',
        options: '$',
      }, {
        loader: 'expose-loader',
        options: 'jQuery',
      }],
    });
    module.exports = environment;