AngularJS : How to watch service variables?

Question

I have a service, say:

factory(\'aService\', [\'$rootScope\', \'$resource\', function ($rootScope, $resource) {
  var service = {
    foo: []
  };

  return          


        

Answer 1

I've seen some terrible observer patterns here that cause memory leaks on large applications.

I might be a little late but it's as simple as this.

The watch function watches for reference changes (primitive types) if you want to watch something like array push simply use:

someArray.push(someObj); someArray = someArray.splice(0);

This will update the reference and update the watch from anywhere. Including a services getter method. Anything that's a primitive will be updated automatically.