How to run userscript(/greasemonkey) after AngularJS library is loaded

Question

I just want to create some extensions to angular object to make AngularJS debugging more convenient.

But when I run add userscript, it can\'t find an angular object. Ang

Answer 1

The fact that Angular is unavailable at the moment when user script runs indicates that Angular is loaded asynchronously, this is quite normal for any SPA (also check that @run-at is not set to document-start, it isn't the desirable behaviour here).

The usual workaround for user scripts is to watch for the desired variable:

var initWatcher = setInterval(function () {
    console.log('watch');
    if (unsafeWindow.angular) {
        clearInterval(initWatcher);
        init();
    }
}, 100);

function init() {
    console.log('angular', unsafeWindow.angular);
}

If cross-browser compatibility is not required, then FF-specific Object.prototype.watch can be used instead:

unsafeWindow.watch('angular', function (prop, oldVal, newVal) {
    console.log('watch');
    if (newVal) {
        unsafeWindow.unwatch('angular');
        // angular is still undefined ATM, run init() a bit later
        setTimeout(init);
    }
    return newVal;
});

function init() {
    console.log('angular', unsafeWindow.angular);
}