Quite often there is a need to pass data from one controller to another. This is relatively easy if we need to pass data from child to parent controller, but not so straight forward when controllers are not in that relationship.
Still, there’s quite a few ways of achieving that, differing in ease of implementation (though none are hard), performance and ease of maintenance.
Angular offers emit/broadcast/on methods on a scope, which are a lot like events in say C#, but they only broadcasted up and down in scope inheritance, so if you need to share data with sibling or some random controller in your app you need to jump through the hoops. Continue reading “Controller communication in AngularJS”