I too have made my own custom template for Joomla 3.3.6 that uses minimum JS but does load bootstrap and Jquery. You are correct that the foundry script loads before Jquery. I assume the foundry script does not rely on Jquery to properly operate. If that's true, I'm not quite sure how loading it before Jquery is a bad thing.

Hi Josh,

At the time I posted, I'm getting error in JS console pointing to ES script and I thought it was caused by jQuery loaded before ES config/foundry scripts. Well, I guess it was caused by nginx cache or something.

It's just weird that Joomla would load components/module/plugin scripts before loading jQuery Library. What if the extension rely on jQuery to run. I don't know if you notice that in different setup/server scripts loads differently in sequence. I've seen this in 3 different setup, local and 2 different servers.

Thanks,

Jackson

As for the rest of Joomla, I completely agree that Jquery should load first considering that some extensions make use of it and need it to load first. Will have to keep an eye out for possibly scenarios where Jquery gets loaded twice to fix this issue.

It actually depends on how the extension is adding the items into the head of the page. I believe using the addScriptTag, they will all be rendered before Joomla's script declarations but we actually add it before anything else on purpose and that purpose is to simply avoid conflict issues with 3rd party extensions