jQuery and Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Style Apps

Question

Can jQuery be used in Windows 8 Metro-style apps developed using the JavaScript API? I\'m looking at the samples, and there\'s a lot of standard DOM manipulation like doc

Answer 1

The $ is not magic. jQuery is just a javascript library. It should run fine.

The only thing that might not work are cssHooks which won't take into account any 'quirks' of their environment.

So yes, it will work, if you trust Microsoft to produce an environment that follows the HTML/CSS/JS specifications.

Do you feel lucky?

Answer 2

JQuery should work fine but bear in mind there is some built in functionality for doing this kind of thing, in the case of your example:

WinJS.Utilities.query("#someId li")
     .listen("click", function (result) {

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Answer 3

It should run fine. jQuery is just a library. The $('#someid') will internally call the document.getElementById You can use it just as if you can use the javascript code you write yourself...