AngularJS: read initial value of ngModel.$viewValue from different directive

Question

I would like to read the initial value ngModel.$viewValue from different directive.

# coffee script
app.directive \'directive\', -> 
  return {
      requ         


        

Answer 1

No need to watch and ng-init is bad. Something like..

      return {
          require: 'ngModel',
          link: function(scope, element, attrs, ngModel) {
                var getter = $parse(attrs.ngModel);
                var value = getter(scope);

           }
        };

Here value will give the initial bound value in model.