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I am building a wonderful web application with Laravel, defining my javascript dependencies with the package.json, and all is going well. Until when I need to use a JQuery datepicker with a default italian localization.

Looking in SO, I get a million of suggestions about JQuery-UI and localization, like JQuery UI datepicker localization, Localization not working in jQuery UI datePicker and jQuery UI Datepicker localization error on load . Sadly, nothing about how to make it work with NPM and moreover with a localization file needed.

I could download the source files and use them, but I managed to be tidy until now, and I'd love to find out how to use NPM for my datepicker too.

Ing. Luca Stucchi
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After a ton of attempts, here is a working version.

First of all, define all of the dependencies in package.json

...
"jquery-ui-dist": "^1.12.1",
"jquery-ui": "^1.12.1",
...

Notice that I need BOTH the jquery-ui-dist version (for the minimized version that we will use) and the jquery-ui, for the localization file.

That said, I have to copy my files from the node_modules folder (that I don't export in production) to the public/js folder, and I do it adding these rows in webpack.mix.js

...
.scripts('node_modules/jquery-ui-dist/jquery-ui.min.js','public/js/jquery-ui.min.js')
.scripts('node_modules/jquery-ui/ui/i18n/datepicker-it.js','public/js/datepicker-it.js')
...

Last but not least, I add the import of the javascript files in my page, 

<script src="/js/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/datepicker-it.js"></script>

and this makes the trick, loading the datepicker in italian language by default

Ing. Luca Stucchi
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