Creating Custom Services in AngularJS

Creating Custom Services in AngularJS — a practical guide to AngularJS custom services with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Inject $http and other deps via array annotations for minification safety.

service()

angular.module('myApp').service('ItemService', ['$http', function ($http) {
  this.list = function () {
    return $http.get('/api/items').then(function (res) { return res.data; });
  };
}]);