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Louie Almeda
Louie Almeda

Reputation: 5632

Attaching underscore or lodash to angular

Is it ok to attach underscore.js variable to angular variable? so I can call underscore like: angular._ ? Since underscore is less likely to be mocked at testing and we can't declare global variables?

if so, which part of my angular.js application should I add it?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1117

Answers (6)

kafbuddy
kafbuddy

Reputation: 304

If you whant to use underscore you can just simply add it to your scope

Do the following in you controller

$scope._ = _;

now you use all underscore features inside you html template like

<div ng-repeat="value in _.filter(list, ...)"></div>

Upvotes: 0

coderdark
coderdark

Reputation: 1501

What testing suite are u going to be using?

If u are using karma, u can add any third party lib in the karma config under the files option. These files will be available in the browser and accessible to your tests. No need to wrap the lib in an angular service or attach it to angular.

Upvotes: 0

Brecht Billiet
Brecht Billiet

Reputation: 229

If you use ES6 modules you can just import it, if you use the iife approach you can register it as a constant and later inject it

angular.module("app").constant("_", _);

Still I would recommend an es6 architecture. You can take a look at this

Upvotes: 0

user1464581
user1464581

Reputation: 376

I prefer to create a wrapper service in it's own injectable module like such:

angular.module('underscore.service', [])
.factory('_', function () {
  return window._; // assumes underscore has already been loaded on the page
});

As noted, you should include underscore.js before angular in your html as you typically would.

This approach allows makes underscore accessible in a testing environment.

Upvotes: 11

SoEzPz
SoEzPz

Reputation: 15922

The best way I have seen to do this is dependency injecting it.

check out this link to ng-underscore link

or

this link angular-underscore link

Upvotes: 0

atinder
atinder

Reputation: 2090

I think it would be better not attaching underscore to angular but use it directly.

Upvotes: 7

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