Using an existing js library (jQuery) in ionic 2

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@AGrandt

Do I just dump them into a folder in the ionic project? In for instance app/providers or in the www directory? If so, how do I import the classes defined by the API?

I would suggest you to check if this library is available on NPM and add it as dependency in such case. Otherwise you can add the files in a new directory under www (e.g. lib) and then create a gulp task to copy them to the build folder, as @xr0master suggested. You can find a sample implementation in the linked post:

Loading external javascript files in ionic2

It could be harder than it should be, when using the wrong tool for the job. Basically you want to ensure that a few scripts are always included and executed in a specific order - why bother wrestling with the transpiler and a complex multistep process instead of just combining the scripts in the desired order and saving them to a single file. As a starting point I would suggest you the following (disclaimer: untested, but you should get the idea): gulpfile.js // ... gulp.task('watch', ['cle…

Then you can just include the resulting file and use the API in your project.

You might also need to install type definitions for the libraries as well.