precompile angular js template to speed up application startup
I have a big angular application with 5 templates included in the main page using
<script type="text/ng-template" id="/myMainTemplate.html">...</script>
<script type="text/ng-template" id="/myTemplatePage2.html">...</script>
<script type="text/ng-template" id="/myTemplatePage3.html">...</script>
<script type="text/ng-template" id="/myTemplatePage4.html">...</script>
However, my application takes a lot of time to startup.
Removing the templates 2/3/4 fix it but of course broke the app, my guess is that angularjs takes too much time to compile the 5 templates.
Is there a way to pre-compile angularjs templates, for example with nodejs or something similar (the same way we can compile templates with handlebar maybe) ?
If I understand well the $compile instruction, the idea would be to move the instruction $compile(myTemplate) in the server-side inside of the client
Answer
Take a look at the grunt-html2js task.
https://github.com/karlgoldstein/grunt-html2js
It converts plain Angular HTML templates to JavaScript ready for concatenating into your main app bundle. Once the templates are in your app bundle they'll be primed in Angular's template cache so they load instantly.