Should we explicitly load jQuery before Angular?

[patrickmcelwee]

I just read some forums (see here and here) that say that, when angular is loaded before jQuery, it automatically loads its own jqLite library. This can cause problems.

This wiredep thread indicates that the best solution is to exclude jQuery from wiredep's auto-injection, and just explicitly put it into index.html. Not incidentally, this solution would mesh with the solution I am considering for an issue I ran into in the ml-lodlive-ng library. That issue could be solved by explicitly loading both jQuery and the original ml-lodlive library before wiredep's injection block.

[grtjn]

We solved it by putting jquery above angular in the bower.json dependencies. That seemed enough for all cases that I saw.. It also only matters in cases where jquery needs to interact with angular elements..

[patrickmcelwee]

OK, if we aren't seeing problems, then probably no reason to do this.

[grtjn]

It wasn't necessary to close it just yet, since the solution is not merged yet. It is included in the dashboard PR though: https://github.com/marklogic/slush-marklogic-node/pull/327/files