Why is jQuery getting loaded in my layout?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi, I’m having some trouble removing jQuery from my layout. I’ve been on the docs and searched this forum but still can’t find the answer.

I have searched my project and I can’t find any specific place where jquery is being loaded. However If I remove


AppAsset::register($this);

from views/layouts/main.php It is no longer loaded.

I’ve searched through the AssetBundle class and can’t see any mention of jquery. I want to use Yii’s AssetBundle but not jQuery. FYI I’m running 2.0 stable release basic

Many thanks in advance

Ash

2

Perhaps because of http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-yiiasset.html which has a dependency on Jquery

3

True but that’s not why it is being loaded into the layout. After a bit more digging I found that registering any script file with:


['position' => \yii\web\View::POS_READY]

Yii will automatically add jQuery to the end of the page body. Hover this can be overridden in config:




'assetManager' => [

            'bundles' => [

                 'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [

                    'jsOptions' => [

                        'position' => \yii\web\View::POS_HEAD

                    ],

                ],        

            ],

        ],

Also worth noting - If you want to load in query from CDN you can do that with:




'assetManager' => [

            'bundles' => [

                 'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [

                    'jsOptions' => [

                        'position' => \yii\web\View::POS_HEAD

                    ],

                    'js' => ['//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js'] 

                ],        

            ],

        ],