Tried to Load Angular More Than Once

Question

I have a yeoman scaffolded app (the angular fullstack generator).

grunt serve works fine, but grunt build produces a distribution that locks up memory, most probably because of circular references in angular.

I upgraded angular to 1.2.15. The error I get is:

WARNING: Tried to Load Angular More Than Once

Prior to upgrading, the error was:

Error: 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!

It's pretty difficult to debug as it only happens after build / minification. All my modules are in angular's array format, so the minification DI shouldn't be a problem but it is.

There's no single script that causes this. The only way it goes away is if I don't initialize with my app.js file. My app.js file is below.

Any thing come to mind?

'use strict';

angular.module('myApp', [
  'ngCookies',
  'ngResource',
  'ngSanitize',
  'ngRoute',
  'ngTagsInput',
  'ui.bootstrap',
  'google-maps',
  'firebase'
]);

angular.module('myApp').config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
      .when('/', {
        templateUrl: 'views/listing.html',
        controller: 'ListingCtrl'
      })
      .otherwise({
        redirectTo: '/'
      });
  }]).constant('FIREBASE_URL', 'something');

Answer 1

This could be a number of issues: essentially it's a problem of routeProvider not finding a file and recursively loading the default.

For me, it turned out that it wasn't minification but concatenation of the js that caused the problems.

angular.module('myApp').config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
      .when('/', {
        templateUrl: 'views/listing.html',
        controller: 'ListingCtrl'
      })
      .otherwise({
        redirectTo: '/'
      });
  }]).constant('FIREBASE_URL', 'something');

You'll notice that if the app can't find a file (i.e., otherwise), then it will redirect to the root, which in this case loads the templateUrl. But if your templateUrl is wrong, then it will cause a recursion that reloads index.html loading angular (and everything else) over and over.

In my case, grunt-concat caused the templateUrl to be wrong after build, but not before.