AngularJS Providers

#AngularJS Providers

While working on a project I ran across the need to make directives configurable such that another app loading modules could tailor the behavior of pre-existing directives. So I did some playing around with writing angular providers. There are plenty of different ways to make this sort of thing happen since providers are very open ended things but for this simple use case I came up with this bit of code.

See the Pen Angular Directive Provider Example (Alternative) by Paul Adams (@adamspe) on CodePen.

app-one exposes a directive that simply displays an object using some markup. app-two comes along and wants to re-use the directive but replace the template used to display the object.

The pen uses angular’s $templateCache to avoid needing to include external files and in retrospect I suppose for the purposes of illustration I could have just as easily used the template attribute instead of the templateUrl attribute, but whatever, it’s an illustration to play with an idea.