AngularJS and jQuery... What's wrong with using both?

Question

I saw a few blog articles saying that AngularJS and jQuery could be used together in one app. That seems good as jQuery has some functionalities Angular doesn't have and Angular allows us to make a greatly structured logic for a web app.

The fact is, as I'm french I also take a look at french blog articles about that, and french tends to say that we should never use jQuery and Angular together. I asked why on a forum and people said that it's probably because beginners usually use jQuery and Angular for the same things : adding elements dynamically, use ajax requests, etc... But I'd like to use jQuery for some things Angular does not do and to allow bootstrap js to work on my app.

What do you think, are jQuery and Angular bad at working together in one single app? Or does it just depend on how we make them work together?

Answer 1

AngularJS uses JQuery itself, the major reason not to mix and match is just what you described of them stepping on each other's toes.

While I was learning Angular a lot of the time I would end up using JQuery alongside it because I didn't understand Angular or know it's full capabilities. After learning it better my code has continuously less JQuery in it, but if I can't figure it out in angular, I'll make sure it works with JQuery until I can get it.