Controllers

controllerAs Controller Syntax

• Use the controllerAs syntax over the classic controller with $scope syntax.

• The controllerAs syntax uses this inside controllers which gets bound to $scope

  Why?: controllerAs is syntactic sugar over $scope. You can still bind to the View and still access $scope methods.

  Why?: Helps avoid the temptation of using $scope methods inside a controller when it may otherwise be better to avoid them or move the method to a factory, and reference them from the controller. Consider using $scope in a controller only when needed. For example when publishing and subscribing events using $emit, $broadcast, or $on.

  /* avoid */
  function CustomerController($scope) {
      $scope.name = {};
      $scope.sendMessage = function() { };
  }

  /* recommended - but see next section */
  function CustomerController() {
      this.name = {};
      this.sendMessage = function() { };
  }