How to check for the existence of a module without an error being raised?

Question

In Angular 1.2, ngRoute is a separate module so you can use other community routers like ui.router instead.

I\'m writing an open-source mod

Answer 1

The original answer is legit. However, as an alternative, I wrote this when I needed to "find or create" the modules. There's a number of use cases, but generally, it lets you not have to worry about file load order. You could either put this in a initialModules.js... or the top of all your individual service/directive files start with something like this. This little function works like a charm for me:

var initialModules = [
  {name: 'app.directives', deps: ['ui.mask']},
  {name: 'app.services'},
  {name: 'app.templates'},
  {name: 'app.controllers'}
];

initialModules.forEach(function(moduleDefinition) {
  findOrCreateModule(moduleDefinition.name, moduleDefinition.deps);
});

function findOrCreateModule(moduleName, deps) {
  deps = deps || [];
  try {
    angular.module(moduleName);
  } catch (error) {
    angular.module(moduleName, deps);
  }
}


///// OR... in like "myDirective.js"
findOrCreateModule('app.directives').directive('myDirective', myDirectiveFunction);