Jquery not working in angular 6 Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '…\node_modules\jquery\dist\jquery.min.js'

Question

I am in process migrating Angular 5 project to Angular 6.

While starting application by

npm start

getting the below error

Answer 1

In Angular 6 u don't need to write:

"../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"../node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"

You can write with ./ like on the top this will works too, but the easiest way in angular.json file:

"node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"

In my opinion it's better and clear

Answer 2

For Angular 6 the path is as follows:

from:

"../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"../node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"

to

"./node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"./node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"./node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"

Answer 3

Paths in angular-cli.json are relative to the project root (src/ normally). For instance, you have the src/styles.css file, but in angular-cli.json it's listed only as styles.css.

Answer 4

In your file 'tsconfig.json', you make maybe

{
  "compileOnSave": false,
  "compilerOptions": {
  "baseUrl": "./",
  "outDir": "./dist/out-tsc",
  "sourceMap": true,
  "declaration": false,
  "moduleResolution": "node",
  "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
  "experimentalDecorators": true,
  "target": "es5",
  "typeRoots": [
  "node_modules/@types"
  ],
  "lib": [
    "es2017",
    "dom"
  ]
 },
"include": ["node_modules/angular-bootstrap-md/**/*.ts",  "src/**/*.ts"], 
}

You can replace

"include": ["node_modules/angular-bootstrap-md/**/*.ts",  "src/**/*.ts"],

to

"include": ["src/**/*.ts","node_modules/angular-bootstrap-md/**/*.ts" ],

Moreover, in your file 'angular.json', I delete '../' in front of node_modules in "styles" and "scripts".

And I copied lines of the "scripts" in the "scripts" in the category "test"

"test": {
     ...
     "styles": [
       "src/styles.css"
        "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css",
        "./assets/css/font-icon.css",
        "node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css"
     ],
     "scripts": [
        "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
        "node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.min.js",
        "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"
     ],
     ...

Answer 5

Once again the angular team makes things harder for not real reason =(

I had this problem and after Googling around fruitlessly I wondered if they had changed relative paths somehow as well as renaming angular-cli.json.

A little further up in the file I found the line:

Yeah, just change:

"../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"../node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"

to

"./node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
"./node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.js",
"./node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"