angular-decorate

Use AngularJS' decorate function with ease.

If you haven't head about decorators in Angular, check this introduction.

Removes the boilerplate code needed to decorate a service, so that you can decorate any service with this simple function call:

angular.module(moduleName).decorate(serviceName, decorateFN);

Setup

Load the file angular-decorate.js directly after angular.js:

<script src="angular.js"></script>
<script src="angular-decorate.js"></script>

Example

Overwrite AngularJS' templateCache.get() function to always append .html.

angular.module('app').decorate('$templateCache', function ($delegate) {
    var _get = $delegate.get;
    $delegate.get = function (key) {
        return _get.call(_get, key + ".html");
    };
    return $delegate;
});

Related

• Introduction: Angular decorators
• Talk: $provide.decorator() - Modifying the behavior of AngularJS' core services
• Inspired by Brian Fords article Hacking Core Directives in AngularJS.