Using AngularJS Controllers created with angular.module().controller()

Question

I am still very new to AngularJS and am working through setting up my first application. I would like to be able to do the following:

angular.module('App.controllers', [])
  .controller('home', function () {
    $scope.property = true;
  }]);

angular.module('App', ['App.controllers'])
  .config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider.when('/', {templateUrl: 'partials/home.html', controller: home});
  }]);

Using this setup the following error is generated:

Uncaught ReferenceError: home is not defined from App

My question is: How can I register controllers using angular.module.controller() (or $controllerProvider.register() directly) and use the registered controller elsewhere in my app.

My motivation: I would like to avoid using either global constructor functions as my controllers (as most of the examples on angularjs.org use) or complex namespacing. If I can register and use controllers as single variable names (that are not then put in the global scope) that would be ideal.

Answer 1

Try using a string identifier.

routeProvider.when('/', {templateUrl: 'partials/home.html', controller: 'home'});

When you use a literal, it is looking for a variable called home, but that doesn't exist in this case.

Answer 2

If you are getting controller is not defined error you have to write your controller name within the quotes.

or define your controller like this

function controllerName()
{
   //your code here
}

refer this: Uncaught ReferenceError:Controller is not defined in AngularJS