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

If you decorate angular.module to store the names in an array then you could just check if the array contains your module name.

Decorate angular.module

See @dsfq's answer on SO.

This needs to happen after angular is loaded but before you start loading any angular modules.

Check for your module

if(angular.modules.indexOf("ngRoute") > -1) ...