# Jquery with Ember

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/jquery-with-ember/16006>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/jquery-with-ember/16006 "2019-01-14T01:07:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![brocolliInDB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/brocolliindb/32/14136_2.png) [@brocolliInDB](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/brocolliInDB)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/jquery-with-ember/16006/1 "2019-01-14T01:07:46Z")

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[Current Ember CLI version 3.0.0] As far as I know, Ember is currently working on removing jquery dependencies on Ember framework.

Here is my question.

What if I cannot be apart from jquery from my app since it will take a lot of costs if I do.

Is there reason why I should version-up ember cli from 3.0.0 to 3.6.0?

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**Author:** ![ryanto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/ryanto/32/13850_2.png) [@ryanto](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/ryanto)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/jquery-with-ember/16006/2 "2019-01-14T02:45:19Z")

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You can totally continue to use jQuery when you upgrade to 3.6. Check out this addon: [GitHub - emberjs/ember-jquery](https://github.com/emberjs/ember-jquery) it’ll let you install jQuery.

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**Author:** ![rwjblue](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/rwjblue/32/9411_2.png) [@rwjblue](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/rwjblue)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/jquery-with-ember/16006/3 "2019-01-15T01:36:34Z")

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I hope our messaging is clear on this, but there is **absolutely nothing wrong with using jQuery!!!**. There are a number of scenarios where jQuery makes general web application development much better, and it is completely worth the various tradeoffs.

The thing that we (as a community) have been working so hard to do is completely decouple _Ember_ itself from jQuery. It may not be obvious, but Ember from well before 1.0.0 all the way through 3.1 or 3.2 (sorry can’t recall exactly 🙃) fundamentally required jQuery to be present or it wouldn’t work at all. **THAT** is what we have been working to fix.

Sure, soon enough Ember apps will be generated without jQuery, but Ember apps ship without _ **loads** _ of other really great software that you might eventually want to bring into your app to make your application easier to write (e.g. `lodash`, `moment`, a zillion awesome addons, etc). JQuery is in good company here. 😸