Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

Downloading and referencing the Cycle plugin

To install any jQuery plugins, we'll use the npm package manager. This is the de facto tool for declaring package dependencies for modern JavaScript projects. For example, we can use a package.json file to declare that we need jQuery, and a specific set of jQuery plugins. 

For help on installing npm, see https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/what-is-npm. For help on initializing a package.json file, see https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/using-a-package.json.

Once you have a package.json file in the root of your project directory, you're ready to start adding dependencies. For example, you can add a jquery dependency from your command console as follows:

npm install jquery --save

And if ...