title: Using JQuery with Node.js "ReferenceError: $ is not defined"
body: <p>I am trying to build a simple IRC bot for Twitch in Node.js with this framework <a href="https://github.com/Schmoopiie/twitch-irc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Schmoopiie/twitch-irc</a> that can connect to the API and check certain things, in this reference I will be checking the followers on the current channel the bot is located in. Except I am running into an error, I keep getting this error logged below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[31mcrash[39m: ReferenceError: $ is not defined
      at client.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\bot.js:157:9)
      at client.emit (events.js:117:20)
      at C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\library\client.js:657:30
      at Object.createChannelUserData (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\library\data.js:56:2)
      at client._handleMessage (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\library\client.js:651:22)
      at Stream.emit (events.js:95:17)
      at drain (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\node_modules\irc-message-stream\node_modules\through\index.js:36:16)
      at Stream.stream.queue.stream.push (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\node_modules\irc-message-stream\node_modules\through\index.js:45:5)
      at LineStream.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Users\Exuviax\Desktop\node.js\node_modules\twitch-irc\node_modules\irc-message-stream\index.js:22:16)
      at LineStream.emit (events.js:95:17)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the code that I am using to run, in order to check the API</p>
  
  <pre><code>var irc = require('twitch-irc');
  var colors = require('colors');
  var jQuery = require('jQuery')
  var jsdom = require("jsdom");
  var window = jsdom.jsdom().parentWindow;
  
  jsdom.jQueryify(window, "http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js", function () {
    var $ = window.$;
    $("body").prepend("&lt;h1&gt;The title&lt;/h1&gt;");
    console.log($("h1").html());
  });
  
  // Calling a new client..
  var client = new irc.client({
      options: {
          debug: true,
          debugIgnore: ['ping', 'chat', 'action'],
          logging: true,
          tc: 3
      },
      identity: {
          username: 'BotName',
          password: 'oauth:Code'
      },
      channels: ['#my', '#first', '#connect', '#channels']
  });
  
  // Connect the client to server..
  client.connect();
  
  client.addListener('chat', function(channel, user, message) {
      if (message.indexOf('!followers') === 0) {
          var channels = channel
          channels = channels.replace('#', '');
          $.getJSON('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/' + channels + '.json?callback=?', function(data) {
              var followers = data.followers
              client.say(channel, "Current Followers: " + followers);
              console.log("Followers for " + channel + " " + followers);
          });
      }
  
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have been attempting to get this refferenceerror to go away for hours, but I am just not familiar enough with using JS and JQ outside of the browser environment to produce any results, any insight would be much appreciated.</p>