Delaying AngularJS route change until model loaded to prevent flicker

Question

I am wondering if there is a way (similar to Gmail) for AngularJS to delay showing a new route until after each model and its data has been fetched using it

Answer 1

Delaying showing the route is sure to lead to an asynchronous tangle... why not simply track the loading status of your main entity and use that in the view. For example in your controller you might use both the success and error callbacks on ngResource:

$scope.httpStatus = 0; // in progress
$scope.projects = $resource.query('/projects', function() {
    $scope.httpStatus = 200;
  }, function(response) {
    $scope.httpStatus = response.status;
  });

Then in the view you could do whatever:

    Loading


    Real stuff
    

         ...
    


    Error, not found, etc. Could distinguish 4xx not found from 
    5xx server error even.