dependency

External dependency loader for quick ng prototyping

Declare your dependencies in one place, and speed up your prototyping!

angular.module('main')
  // Declare dependencies and their source _in your javascript_
  .dependency('ui.router', '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular-ui-router/0.2.10/angular-ui-router.min.js')
  .dependency('main.login', 'main/login.js')
  .controller(fn)
;

// Declare sub-modules without dependency annotation
angular.module('login')
  .dependency('ui.router')
;

Go from this verbosity...

<script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="lib/dependency/dependency.js"></script>
<script src="lib/angular-scroll/angular-scroll.min.js"></script>

<script src="app.js"></script>
<script src="common/services/contacts.js"></script>
<script src="common/directives/table.js"></script>
<script src="lounge/lounge.js"></script>
<script src="lounge/directive.js"></script>
<script src="dining/dining.js"></script>
<script src="dining/controller.js"></script>
<script src="dining/directive.js"></script>
<script src="smoking/smoking.js"></script>
<script src="smoking/service.js"></script>
<!-- ... -->

...to this.

<script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="lib/dependency/dependency.js"></script>

<script src="app.js"></script>

Instead of listing your dependencies twice, do it all in javascript.

Installation

1. Grab it from your favorite registry:

• curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zzmp/dependency/master/dependency.js > lib/dependency/dependency.js
• git clone [email protected]:zzmp/dependency.git
• bower install dependency
• npm install ng-dependency

1. Include it in your index.html, just after angular:

<script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="lib/dependency/dependency.js"></script>

Features

Declare your dependencies directly in the module

angular.module('main')
  .dependency('depName', '/depPath.js');

Declare multiple dependencies at once

angular.module('main')
  .dependency({
    'depName': '/depPath.js',
    'depTwo' : '/depTwo.js',
    'cdnDep' : '//url'
  });

Declare your sources in one place

angular.module('main')
  .dependency(['depName', 'depTwo', 'cdnDep']);

/* sources.js */
angular.dependency({
  'depName': '/depPath.js',
  'depTwo' : '/depTwo.js',
  'cdnDep' : '//url'
});

Automatically detect duplicate dependencies

angular.module('main')
  .dependency('depName')
  // Only loaded once, from first given path '/depPath'
  .dependency('depName', '/depPath')
  // Already loaded, new path is ignored
  .dependency('depName', '/fakePath');

I work best with prototyping. I do not (yet) concatenate code, so don't use me for something that needs to minimize AJAX calls. I am great for CDN-distributed dependencies.