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

A much better solution is to simply do your check when the module is created. You just need a utility function to add a callback.

//create a utility function to add a callback to object methods    
//here we are making it a method of the underscore or lowdash object
//but it could be added to the angular global object or anything else
_.addCallBack = function (obj, originalMethodName, callBackMethod, context){
            var fnOriginal = obj[originalMethodName],
                outcome;

            context = context || obj;

            obj[originalMethodName] = function () {
                var outcome = fnOriginal.apply(this, arguments);

                callBackMethod.apply(this, arguments);

                return outcome;
            };
};

_.addCallBack(angular, "module", function(sModuleName, asDependencies){
    if(_.contains(asDependencies, "ngRoute")){
      //your logic here
      //just loop through if you don't use underscore or lowdash
    }
});