How to include jquery.js in Grails?

Question

I have a Grails 2.0.0 project that was created using grails create-app. In my HTML and GSP files, I\'m trying to include jquery.js. I\'ve tried all of

Answer 1

Currently, in 2015, all you have to do is add runtime ":jquery:1.11.1" to your BuildConfig.groovy, and that is all.

Answer 2

I found (from the JQuery Plugin page) that in addition to using the <g:javascript library="jquery"/> tag, I had to add the plugin label explicitly to make the tag look like:

<g:javascript library="jquery" plugin="jquery"/>

Any idea why I had to use the plugin property?

Answer 3

Steve after installing Jquery plugin thru grails install-plugin jquery you have to execute another grails command to download the jquery file in your app

grails installJQuery

This target downloads and installs jquery-1.7.1.js and jquery-1.7.1.min.js under web-app/js/jquery/

Answer 4

I saw a good tutorial on that in icodeya. http://www.icodeya.com/2012/09/grails-different-ways-to-import.html

you can either do this in your gsp:

<g:javascript src="myscript.js"/ >

OR you can do this in your Config.groovy:

grails.resources.modules = {
core{
resource url:'/js/jQuery.js' 
} 
myScript { 
resource url:'/js/myScript.js' 
dependsOn 'core' 
}
}

then, in your gsp, you can attach this:

<r:require module="myScript" />