I recently came across a new approach while reading 'Mean Machine'.
Typically, I have always been taught to return a promise from a service to the controller and then handle it using .success or .then.
In this case, the author is directly returning the data obtained from the promise. Is this method commonly used? Is it considered best practice?
.factory('Auth', function($http, $q, AuthToken) {
var authFactory = {};
authFactory.login = function(username, password) {
return
$http
.post('/api/authenticate', {
username: username,
password: password
})
.success(function(data) {
AuthToken.setToken(data.token);
return data;
});
};
...