jsFiddle Example: Using Self-Executing Functions with AngularJS Constants

Properly using Values and Constants in AngularJS can be really powerful, but AngularJS does have one annoyance with Values and Constants: if you want to keep values bundled together (for readability), its hard to have them also reference each other. Self-executing code to the rescue: just build up the value and return it from the function automatically.

 
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Jon Hartmann, July 2011

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