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Unit testing asynchronous Angular services

Angular is built to be testable. But when I tried to test an Angular service that had a dependency on another service ánd communicated asynchronously with it, I faced a bit of a challenge.

Why you should ditch Angular controllers for directives

AngularJS has been around for a while. Although AngularJS 2.0 is going to have a completely different api, it’s current api is kinda settled and mature. But it’s starting to get old. 6 years is quite a lot for a front-end framework and the competition is moving fast. But still AngularJS is a solid and complete framework with a big community behind it. Controllers have become the staple component of an Angular application, but should they be?