angular-ui-router-resolve

A module to shim support for exposing resolves (via $stateProvider) on a $rootScope object, as well as exposing a $resolves service. This is particularly useful in a component based architecture, where components are used as the main routing piece (which have their own controller decoupled from $stateProvider controller).

Install

npm install angular-ui-router-resolve --save

Usage

angular-ui-router-resolve is exposed as a UMD module, and so can be seamlessly integrated with your module loader of choice. For instance:

import uiRouter from 'angular-ui-router';
import uiRouterResolve from 'angular-ui-router-resolve';

export default angular.module('yourApp', [
  uiRouter,
  uiRouterResolve
]);

After importing the module into your application, any resolves are available on $rootScope as well as the $resolves service.

Using the $resolves service

Consider the following state config:

export default function someComponentConfig($stateProvider) {
  'ngInject';
  $stateProvider.state('yourApp.someComponent', {
    url: '/some-component',
    template: '<some-component></some-component>',
    resolve: {
      persons: function($http) {
        'ngInject';
        return $http.get('/some-data-source');
      }
    }
  });
}

To get that persons resolve property, a common approach is to add a basic controller to the state config (which works fine), and then add a bindings to someComponent. However, the following can now be done:

export default class SomeComponentController {
  constructor($resolves) {
    'ngInject';
    this.persons = $resolves.persons;
  }
}