Angularjs watch for change in parent scope

Question

I\'m writing a directive and I need to watch the parent scope for a change. Not sure if I\'m doing this the preferred way, but its not working with the following code:

Answer 1

You should have the data property on your child scope, scopes use prototypal inheritance between parent and child scopes.

Also, the first argument the $watch method expects is an expression or a function to evaluate and not a value from a variable., So you should send that instead.