> I got the idea that although you can use jQuery, it is an anti-pattern and not guaranteed to always work. At least from what I could find in SO and blogs.

> I got the idea that although you can use jQuery, it is an anti-pattern and not guaranteed to always work. At least from what I could find in SO and blogs. Only jQuery haters say that. jQuery is totally compatible with Angular,and Angular ships with its own jQuery lite, replaced by jQuery when available. The only thing you need to do is wrap jQuery calls into a directive. I use jQuery and plugins all the time with Angular, never had a problem ,as long i dont call jQuery from a controller , only in directives.