Using Jquery inside AngularJS directive good or bad idea?

Question

Below you can see my code for the directive.

My question is: \" Can i use jquery with directives? Is that a good idea? If not why? \"

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Answer 1

Interesting question. I've got some jquery with element selection in some directives/controllers in my codebase.

I always feel dirty using it and only do it when I really need to, unfortunately it's almost always a time bomb and leads to me cursing myself a few months down the line and refactoring to use a more angulary method.

Have one last look to see if there's a native angular way of doing what you're trying to do, you won't regret it!