Global variables in AngularJS

Question

I have a problem where i\'m initialising a variable on the scope in a controller. Then it gets changed in another controller when a user logs in. This variable is used to co

Answer 1

You can also use the environment variable $window so that a global variable declare outside a controller can be checked inside a $watch

var initWatch = function($scope,$window){
    $scope.$watch(function(scope) { return $window.globalVar },
        function(newValue) {
            $scope.updateDisplayedVar(newValue);
    });
}

Becareful, the digest cycle is longer with these global values, so it is not always real-timed updated. I need to investigate on that digest time with this configuration.