Angularjs - $rootScope in directive link function

Question

I am asking this question because I am not quite clear on how to think of rootscope as a dependency passed to directives

I have a directive that needs to display some in

Answer 1

From my experiments \ experience, it seems that since all $scopes ultimately inherit from the $rootScope you will be able to access data on it without requesting it as a service, following standard javascript prototypical inheritance rules. If you were to set the scope property in your directive to false or {} you will find that you can no longer access it.

.directive("myBar", function($rootScope) {
    return {
        restrict: "E",
        scope: { /* Isolate scope, no $rootScope access anymore */ },
        transclude: true,
        replace: true,
        template: '
' + 
                  '' + 
                  '{{rsLabels.welcome}} {{rsUser.firstName}}!' + 
                  '
'
    };
});

Example: http://jsbin.com/bequy/1/edit