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Avoid circular dependencies with AngularJS Directives

Matthew Adams By Matthew Adams Co-Founder
Avoid circular dependencies with AngularJS Directives

A problem you may encounter if you try to implement my previous example in your own code, is that your implementation of templateRepository cannot (apparently) make use of $templateCache, because angular will throw a circular dependency error.

To avoid this, you can inject the $injector service into the templateRepository, and defer the dependency resolution until you make the call.

Something like this:

Matthew Adams

Co-Founder

Matthew Adams

Matthew was CTO of a venture-backed technology start-up in the UK & US for 10 years, and is now the co-founder of endjin, which provides technology strategy, experience and development services to its customers who are seeking to take advantage of Microsoft Azure and the Cloud.