AngularJS: Dependency Management

Question

We are currently planning a website which exists out of different AngularJS apps that will make use of common services. Services will be implemented in seperate files; to minimize the filesize of the apps we want to include/concatenate only those service-files that are used in the corresponding app - so we are looking for the best practise in dependency management.

is there something like requireJS in angular or what would you suggest to handle the includes? thanks in advance .)

Answer 1

I suggest to use the same organization as ng-boilerplate: https://github.com/joshdmiller/ng-boilerplate

I use an organization close to ng-boilerplat for one project and it allowed us to be modular in our dependency management.

Answer 2

For me, the only build/deployment system that works like a charm for most web apps that have extremely js computation is yeoman.
This quote should describe what it is/does:

Yeoman 1.0 is more than just a tool. It's a workflow; a collection of tools and best practices working in harmony to make developing for the web even better.

So basically, it is a npm that installs all the boilerplate files, dependencies and configures your whole app with the help of generators. It uses bower and gruntalso takes care of the hard part of configuring grunt that is in charge of building/deploying your app.
I highly recommend yeoman as a modern and efficient workflow.