Adding jQuery to your app

So, our intern is starting to work with the jQuery-based app when he runs into his first problem. How does he make jQuery and Dojo play well together? For the answer to that, we can look at some of the lessons from Chapter 6, Charting Your Progress, when we added D3.js to our application.

Loading a copy of our D3.js app, we'll start by adding a reference to the jQuery library in our dojoConfig packages. Remember that it is the JavaScript configuration object that is loaded before we load the ArcGIS Javascript API. We'll add a package with the name and file location, but we'll also add a main property that will make the application load the jQuery library. You can download a copy of the jQuery library and place it in an ...

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