AngularJS Promises, $q, defer

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EDIT

The first answer is the elegant one, but, as stated a few times in this question and another questions on stackoverflow, the problem is that th

Answer 1

The $http.get calls are async, but you aren't waiting until they are all completed before resolving the deferred. Here it works with the timeout simply because your are lucky that the calls have time to complete within 1 second, however this isin't reliable at all.

I will not reiterate a complete solution here, but have a look at my answer for another similar issue.