Using helper methods while templating with Angular JS

Question

Currently in the process of converting a website from its previous templating to Angular. In the previous templating process we were using we were able to call helper method

Answer 1

Looking at the presented use case your best call would be the date filter described here: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.filter:date Using this filter you could write:

{{CreatedDate | date}}

The mentioned filter is customizable so you could use different date formats etc.

Generally speaking filters are very nice for encapsulating formatting logic / UI helper functions. More on creating filters here: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.templates.filters.creating_filters

Filters are nice and fit many use cases but if you are simply after using any function in your template it is possible. Just define a function in a scope and you are ready to use it directly in your template:

{{doSomething(CreatedDate)}}

where doSomething needs to be defined on a scope (a current one or one of the parent scopes):

function MyCtrl($scope) {

    $scope.doSomthing = function(argument){
        //ui helper logic here
    }    
}