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Web Developer's Reference Guide
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Web Developer's Reference Guide

by Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
March 2016
Beginner
838 pages
14h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scope

The $scope object that gets injected into controllers has some functionality. In addition to this, we will look at the hierarchies and digest cycle of scopes.

Digest cycle

This is an important concept to understand with scopes. The digest cycle, from a high level, is a cycle that checks to see whether any scope variables have been changed. If they have, it then executes a function. Take binding a scope variable to the template with {{variable}}. The digest cycle will now watch this variable and, anytime it changes, it will update the template. If the variable is bound anywhere else, it will be updated as well. This is how Angular "magically" makes values auto update.

A few things to keep in mind is that not everything in the scope is watched. ...

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