How to change page title in Angular using $routeProvider
I found several similar questions, however none of the answers helped. They all seem to involve some type of $location dependencies that I'm unable to get injected right.
My code below:
(function() {
// App dependencies
var app = angular.module('portalExchange',
['ngRoute',
'app-products',
'app-manage',
'app-profile']);
// [ Main Controller ] : PortalController
app.controller('PortalController', function($scope) {
if ($('.top_link_dashboard').hasClass('unactive_top')) {
$('.top_link_dashboard').removeClass('unactive_top');
$('.top_link_dashboard').addClass('active_top');
}
});
// Controller for Dashboard
app.controller('DashboardController', function() {
});
// Controller for Developers
app.controller('DevelopersController', function($scope) {
// Page.setTitle('Developers');
});
// Controller for Quote
app.controller('QuoteController', function($scope) {
// Page.setTitle('Begin Quote');
});
// Directive for Header
app.directive('appHeader', function () {
// Type of Directive, E for element, A for Attribute
// url of a template
return {
restrict: 'E',
templateUrl: 'templates/modules/globals/app-header.html'
};
});
// Directive for Footer
app.directive('appFooter', function () {
return {
restrict: 'E',
templateUrl: 'templates/modules/globals/app-footer.html',
controller: function(){
this.date = Date.now();
},
controllerAs:'footer'
};
});
// configure our routes
app.config(function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
// route for the dashboard page
.when('/', {
templateUrl : 'templates/sections/app-dashboard.html',
controller : 'DashboardController'
})
// route for the dashboard page
.when('/dashboard', {
title : 'My Dashboard',
templateUrl : 'templates/sections/app-dashboard.html',
controller : 'DashboardController'
})
// route : Developers Page
.when('/developers', {
title : 'For Developers',
templateUrl : 'templates/sections/app-developers.html',
controller : 'DevelopersController'
})
// route : Begin Quote
.when('/quote', {
title : 'Begin Quote',
templateUrl : 'templates/sections/app-quote.html',
controller : 'QuoteController'
});
});
app.run(['$rootScope', '$route', function($rootScope) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function(newVal, oldVal) {
if (oldVal !== newVal) {
document.title = $route.current.title;
}
});
}]);
})();
The RUN function
app.run(['$rootScope', '$route', function($rootScope) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function(newVal, oldVal) {
if (oldVal !== newVal) {
document.title = $route.current.title;
}
});
}]);
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" ng-app="portalExchange" ng-controller="PortalController as portal">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title ng-bind="title">myApp</title>
</head>
Answer
The way I do it is quite simple. In route configuration you define title:
.when('/dashboard', {
title : 'My Dashboard',
templateUrl : 'templates/sections/app-dashboard.html',
controller : 'DashboardController'
})
then you listen $routeChangeSuccess event and just set document.title. In application run block (the best place for this):
app.run(['$rootScope', '$route', function($rootScope, $route) {
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
document.title = $route.current.title;
});
}]);
The benefit of this approach is that it allows you to avoid one more binding ng-bind="title", which is good.