Option to pass jQuery instance

[mindtricksdev]

Hello,

In my project, I don't have $ exposed as a global variable. Is there any possibility to pass jQuery instance to chessboard.js? Or is there any plan to do this?

Thanks

[Webby2013]

There isn't any need to pass the jQuery object, if you look at the source code:

var $ = window['jQuery']

https://github.com/oakmac/chessboardjs/blob/master/src/chessboard.js#L12

This variable assignment is within a closure (an Immediately Invoked Function Expression to be precise) so the $ is only exposed inside the library, thus, you don't need the $ exposed globally, you do however need jQuery on the window object (!) as this is a hard dependency of the library!

Hope that helps.

[mindtricksdev]

This is precisely my issue. I don't have jQuery on the window object. But I can get a reference to the jQuery object and then pass it along the chessboard.js to satisfy the hard dependency without attaching jQuery to window.

Hope that makes sense.