# How do I include javascript+css from node\_modules in ionic 2?

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**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [December 3, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-do-i-include-javascript-css-from-node-modules-in-ionic-2/72128 "2016-12-03T03:42:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/how-do-i-include-javascript-css-from-node-modules-in-ionic-2/72128/1 "2016-12-03T03:42:13Z")

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I need to include fullcalendar and chart.js within my ionic 2 app. (ionic 2 RC.3) I have used npm to install the relevant modules, and the scripts are within my node\_modules folder.  
How do I properly include the scripts/css from the node\_modules folder into my app?

Things I’ve tried:

- Manually copy the relevant js/css files into the assets folder, and references them with normal `<script>` and `<link>` elements in the index.html. (I mostly got this to work, but it seems terribly clunky)
- import them in my app.module.ts and/or my custom component.ts files, such as `import 'chart.js/dist/Chart.bundle.min.js';` (this sort of works, but I get errors that the underlying scripts can’t find jQuery, so I still have to include jQuery in the index.html manually as above)

Surely there is a better way?