AngularJS ng-controller not working

Question

I just now started learning on AngularJS from w3schools. I am trying to practice examples what ever they have mentioned in the tutorials. Every thing works fine but when i c

Answer 1

This is a common search result for "Angular Controller Not Working" so I thought it'd be helpful to add the solution that fixed my "controller not working" problem.

I had my base route with $routeProvider pointing at a controller file and a templateUrl partial like so:

$routeProvider.when('/', {
    templateUrl: 'partials/home.html',
    controller: 'homePage'
});

I had several other routes and all those controllers worked, but for some reason my first route wouldn't. Turns out, I had a small logic error in my partial and that prevented ANY of my controller code from running.

Dumb little mistake, but I was caught off guard that it was a logic issue in my partial that was preventing any controller code from running. It took a lot longer than I'd like to admit to find because the issue wasn't in my "JavaScript" even though the console errors were present. The joys of tightly coupled front-end code, amiright?