you aren't the only one. i too went through troubles and concerns when i started venturing out to use some of the plugins out there, notably datepicker, select2

you aren't the only one. i too went through troubles and concerns when i started venturing out to use some of the plugins out there, notably datepicker, select2, jqmodal, actually just about any other "cool" plugins out there. creating your own directives to get something to work is something i'd just rather stay away from.