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$ = require("jquery");
$(html).find("<h1>").html("The title");

// definition
var $ = require('jquery')(require("jsdom").jsdom().parentWindow);

// usage
$("body").append("<div>TEST</div>");
console.log($("body").html());

var jsdom = require("jsdom");
var window = jsdom.jsdom().defaultView;

jsdom.jQueryify(window, "http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js", function () {
  var $ = window.$;
  $("body").prepend("<h1>The title</h1>");
  console.log($("h1").html());
});

var jsdom = require("jsdom");
$ = require("jquery")(jsdom.jsdom().createWindow());

var jsdom = require('jsdom'),
    window = jsdom.jsdom().defaultView;

jsdom.jQueryify(window, "../js/vendor/jquery.min.js", function(){
    var $ = window.$;
})

var jsdom = require("jsdom").jsdom;
jsdom.env({
    html : "<html><body></body></html>",
    done : function(errs, window) {
        global.window = window;
    }
});

"jquery": "^2.1.1",
"jsdom": "^1.0.0-pre.3"

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Html page</h1>
    <div class="left">
        <p>left content</p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

var jsdom = require("jsdom").jsdom;
var fs = require('fs');
fs.readFile('page.htm', {encoding: "utf8"}, function (err, markup) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var doc = jsdom(markup);
  var window = doc.parentWindow;
  var $ = require('jquery')(window)
  var outerLeft = $(".left").clone().wrap('<div></div>').parent().html();
  var innerLeft = $(".left").html();
  console.log(outerLeft, "and ...", innerLeft);
});

<div class="left">
<p>left content</p>
</div> and ...
<p>left content</p>

var jsdom = require("jsdom");
var $ = require("jquery")(jsdom.jsdom().parentWindow);

var jsdom = require('node_modules/jsdom/');
$ = require('node_modules/jquery')(new jsdom.JSDOM().window);

var html = fs.readFileSync("./your_html_file.html");

 jsdom.env({
  //url: "http://url_here", //in case you want to load specific url
  //html property is used in case of you need to load html string here
  html: html,
  scripts: ["http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"],
  done: function (err, window) {
    var $ = window.$;
    //start using jquery now
    $("p").each(function(index) {
      console.log("paragraph ", index, $(this).text());
    });
  }
});

npm install -S 'jquery@>=2.1'
npm install -S 'jsdom@3.1.2'

// make $ available on node commandline
>var jsdom = require("jsdom");
>var $ = require("jquery")(jsdom.jsdom().parentWindow);
>var promise = new $.Deferred();
>promise.done(function(){console.log('Starting game ..');});
>promise.resolve();

Starting game..