jQuery ui datepicker with Angularjs

I have almost exactly the same code as you and mine works.

Do you have jQueryUI.js included in the page?

There's a fiddle here

<input type="text" ng-model="date" jqdatepicker />
<br/>
{{ date }}


var datePicker = angular.module('app', []);

datePicker.directive('jqdatepicker', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
         link: function (scope, element, attrs, ngModelCtrl) {
            element.datepicker({
                dateFormat: 'DD, d  MM, yy',
                onSelect: function (date) {
                    scope.date = date;
                    scope.$apply();
                }
            });
        }
    };
});

You'll also need the ng-app="app" somewhere in your HTML

angular.module('elnApp')
.directive('jqdatepicker', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, ctrl) {
            $(element).datepicker({
                dateFormat: 'dd.mm.yy',
                onSelect: function(date) {
                    ctrl.$setViewValue(date);
                    ctrl.$render();
                    scope.$apply();
                }
            });
        }
    };
});

As a best practice, especially if you have multiple date pickers, you should not hardcode the element's scope variable name.

Instead, you should get the clicked input's ng-model and update its corresponding scope variable inside the onSelect method.

app.directive('jqdatepicker', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, ngModelCtrl) {
            $(element).datepicker({
                dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',

                onSelect: function(date) {
                    var ngModelName = this.attributes['ng-model'].value;

                    // if value for the specified ngModel is a property of 
                    // another object on the scope
                    if (ngModelName.indexOf(".") != -1) {
                        var objAttributes = ngModelName.split(".");
                        var lastAttribute = objAttributes.pop();
                        var partialObjString = objAttributes.join(".");
                        var partialObj = eval("scope." + partialObjString);

                        partialObj[lastAttribute] = date;
                    }
                    // if value for the specified ngModel is directly on the scope
                    else {
                        scope[ngModelName] = date;
                    }
                    scope.$apply();
                }

            });
        }
    };
});

EDIT

To address the issue that @Romain raised up (Nested Elements), I have modified my answer

I modified the code and wrapped view update inside $apply().

link: function (scope, elem, attrs, ngModelCtrl){   
var updateModel = function(dateText){
    // call $apply to update the model
    scope.$apply(function(){
        ngModelCtrl.$setViewValue(dateText);
    });
};
var options = {
    dateFormat: "dd/mm/yy",
     // handle jquery date change
    onSelect: function(dateText){
        updateModel(dateText);
    }
};
 // jqueryfy the element
elem.datepicker(options);

}

working fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/hsfid/SrDV2/1/embedded/result/

onSelect doesn't work well in ng-repeat, so I made another version using event bind

html

<tr ng-repeat="product in products">
<td>
    <input type="text" ng-model="product.startDate" class="form-control date-picker" data-date-format="yyyy-mm-dd" datepicker/>
</td>
</tr>

script

angular.module('app', []).directive('datepicker', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function (scope, element, attrs, ngModelCtrl) {
            element.datepicker();
            element.bind('blur keyup change', function(){
                var model = attrs.ngModel;
                if (model.indexOf(".") > -1) scope[model.replace(/\.[^.]*/, "")][model.replace(/[^.]*\./, "")] = element.val();
                else scope[model] = element.val();
            });
        }
    };
});

Unfortunately, vicont's answer did not work for me, so I searched for another solution which is as elegant and works for nested attributes in the ng-model as well. It uses $parse and accesses the ng-model through the attrs in the linking function instead of requiring it:

myApp.directive('myDatepicker', function ($parse) {
    return function (scope, element, attrs, controller) {
      var ngModel = $parse(attrs.ngModel);
      $(function(){
        element.datepicker({
            ...
            onSelect:function (dateText, inst) {
                scope.$apply(function(scope){
                    // Change binded variable
                    ngModel.assign(scope, dateText);
                });
            }
        });
     });
    } 
});

Source: ANGULAR.JS BINDING TO JQUERY UI (DATEPICKER EXAMPLE)

check this hope it will help you:

http://jsbin.com/IKEXOSE/4/edit

Here is my code-

var datePicker = angular.module('appointmentApp', []);

datePicker.directive('datepicker', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        require: 'ngModel',
         link: function (scope, element, attrs, ngModelCtrl) {
            $(element).datepicker({
                dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
                onSelect: function (date) {
                    scope.appoitmentScheduleDate = date;
                    scope.$apply();
                }
            });
        }
    };
});

The best article I've fount is following: http://www.abequar.net/posts/jquery-ui-datepicker-with-angularjs

It took 20 minutes to integrate it with my page.

I think you are missing the Angular ui bootstrap dependency in your module declaration, like this:

angular.module('elnApp', ['ui.bootstrap'])

See the doc for Angular-ui-bootstrap.