How to include custom javascript file in gatsby pr

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• How to include jQuery in a Gatsby.js project? 1 answer

I'm trying to add a custom javascript file to my Gatsby site but I'm still very new to Gatsby and not sure what the best way is to implement it and how. I have tried different methods but I keep getting an error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined

Answer 1

First of all, Gatsby is a static site generator of React and usually we won't implement JQuery with React. If you would like to manipulate your DOM by JQuery, I think you probably could do the same by React.

Back to your question, there are several ways commonly used to include a JS file in Gatsby:

The first one is include your script in Gatsby's html.js. You can refer the documentation there: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/custom-html/#adding-custom-javascript

The second one is using React Helmet. It will let to embed head tags in your components. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-helmet