How to prevent element show before AngularJS initialized( ng-show )

Question

In AngularJS, I wonder how to prevent the elements shown on page before ng-show take effect, I found some posts talk about ng-cloak, but it seems not work in my case, probably the ng-cloak is for prevent double curly bracket rather than Element style.

Another way someone talk about is define some style for before AngularJS initialized, but that is kinda hard to manage.

Is there some official way to handle this?

Answer 1

Unless you want to show a loader, ng-cloak should be your solution.

Official documentation on ng-cloak

If you still have the issue, you may try to add the css to hide element with ng-cloak inside your html to be sure the browser has it in time.

If you do that, choose on way to add the ng-cloak. For example add it as class:

<div ng-show="condition" class="ng-cloak">...</div>

And add this into your html head tag:

<style> .ng-cloak { display: none !important; } </style>

Answer 2

In case you want to just avoid showing something till it's ready to be shown (some data has been loaded from the backend perhaps) then it's better to use ng-if. Ofcourse it works the same with ng-show. But the advantage of using ng-if is that you delay the creation of the extra DOM until it needs to be shown and as a result you improve the intial page loading time.

Here is an example:

var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);


   
myApp.controller("myController", function ($scope, $timeout) {

    $scope.isLoading = false;
    $scope.data = null;
    
    simAsync();

    //simulate async task like http request
    function simAsync() {
        //loadind data has started
        $scope.isLoading = true;

        $timeout(function () {
            $scope.data = [{
                "firstname": "Sims",
                    "lastname": "Wilkerson"
            }, {
                "firstname": "Kelli",
                    "lastname": "Vazquez"
            }, {
                "firstname": "Mcdonald",
                    "lastname": "Byrd"
            }, {
                "firstname": "Taylor",
                    "lastname": "Frost"
            }, {
                "firstname": "Merle",
                    "lastname": "Adkins"
            }, {
                "firstname": "Garrett",
                    "lastname": "Hood"
            }];
            //the data has loaded
            $scope.isLoading = false;
        }, 1500);
    }

});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script>
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="myController">
    
</div>