Is it good to have main controller in Angular?

Question

I dont know if this is a good practice... I have a controller defined in route config but because my HomeCtrl is in ng-if statement he cannot listen fo

Answer 1

In my opinion angular js' power comes with separating out clearly the different controllers directives, services, resources etc. Ideally controllers are linked to templates or partials and are used to update the front end and make calls to services or resources. The sooner you start making these separations the sooner you will start making clean and scalable apps that other developers can quickly make sense of. For app structure I would highly recommend you look into either of these two tools:

Lineman.js

and

Yeomann

The lineman site actually has a really good round up of how the two differ, if you scroll down.

In your scenario there are many ways to link controllers or make function calls that are in different scopes. You can either create a service that injects to your controllers or you can use $emit and $on to set up notifications in the app eg:

In controller A

$rootScope.$on('myNotifier:call', function() {
        myFunction();
    });

And in Controller B or any other controller you could call myFunction() with:

$scope.$emit('newPatientModal:close');