angular-services

You can always use the good old observer pattern if you want to avoid the tyranny and overhead of $watch. In the service: factory(‘aService’, function() { var observerCallbacks = []; //register an observer this.registerObserverCallback = function(callback){ observerCallbacks.push(callback); }; //call this when you know ‘foo’ has been changed var notifyObservers = function(){ angular.forEach(observerCallbacks, function(callback){ callback(); }); … Read more