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