How to include a frontend script when using create-react-app

Question

I'm trying to add the jquery module select2 to my react project which has been created by create-react-app.

I'm running

npm install --save select2

and can see that the dependency is correctly added to my package.json.

Then I add this to a global javascript-file outside my react-code:

$(function () {
    $('select').select2();
});

This does not work as the select2 script is not included.

What am I doing wrong? Should I somehow run the jquery code inside my react code? Should I do something specific to include the select2 library?

This might be a very basic problem, but I'm confused how scripts are actually included when running under the framework of create-react-app.

Nikola Schou · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-20 11:20:56Z

2

After som more research I realize that I can do the following:

Any comments or more correct solutions will still be appreciated.

answered Dec 20, 2016 at 11:20

Nikola Schou

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