Angular factory returning a promise

Question

When my app starts I load some settings from a server. Most of my controllers need this before anything useful can be done. I want to simplify the controller\'s code as much

Answer 1

You can manually bootstrap your application after settings are loaded.

var initInjector = angular.injector(["ng"]);
var $http = initInjector.get("$http");
var $rootScope = initInjector.get("$rootScope");

$http.get('/api/public/settings/get').success(function(data) {
    $rootScope.settings = data;
    angular.element(document).ready(function () {
        angular.bootstrap(document, ["app"]);
    });
});

In this case your whole application will run only after the settings are loaded.

See Angular bootstrap documentation for details