Including a JavaScript library in Acrobat PDF Forms

Hi, I'm new to making PDF Forms. Is it possible to include a JavaScript library (for example jQuery or node.js) in a PDF Form? How would I go about doing this?
Thanks

In principle it's possible, but it wouldn't make much sense because these
libraries are written to work with JS in HTML pages, not PDF files, and the
objects, events and methods of the two are completely different (except for
core JS commands).
So yeah, you can load jQuery in Acrobat but you probably won't be able to
use any of it.

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