AngularJS: How to make angular load script inside ng-include?

Short answer: AngularJS ("jqlite") doesn't support this. Include jQuery on your page (before including Angular), and it should work. See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/angular/H4haaMePJU0/discussion

I tried neemzy's approach, but it didn't work for me using 1.2.0-rc.3. The script tag would be inserted into the DOM, but the javascript path would not be loaded. I suspect it was because the javascript i was trying to load was from a different domain/protocol. So I took a different approach, and this is what I came up with, using google maps as an example: (Gist)

angular.module('testApp', []).
    directive('lazyLoad', ['$window', '$q', function ($window, $q) {
        function load_script() {
            var s = document.createElement('script'); // use global document since Angular's $document is weak
            s.src = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false&callback=initialize';
            document.body.appendChild(s);
        }
        function lazyLoadApi(key) {
            var deferred = $q.defer();
            $window.initialize = function () {
                deferred.resolve();
            };
            // thanks to Emil Stenström: http://friendlybit.com/js/lazy-loading-asyncronous-javascript/
            if ($window.attachEvent) {  
                $window.attachEvent('onload', load_script); 
            } else {
                $window.addEventListener('load', load_script, false);
            }
            return deferred.promise;
        }
        return {
            restrict: 'E',
            link: function (scope, element, attrs) { // function content is optional
            // in this example, it shows how and when the promises are resolved
                if ($window.google && $window.google.maps) {
                    console.log('gmaps already loaded');
                } else {
                    lazyLoadApi().then(function () {
                        console.log('promise resolved');
                        if ($window.google && $window.google.maps) {
                            console.log('gmaps loaded');
                        } else {
                            console.log('gmaps not loaded');
                        }
                    }, function () {
                        console.log('promise rejected');
                    });
                }
            }
        };
    }]);

I hope it's helpful for someone.

I used this method to load a script file dynamically (inside a controller).

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.src = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js";
document.body.appendChild(script);

This won't work anymore from 1.2.0-rc1. See this issue for more about it, in which I posted a comment describing a quick workaround. I'll share it here as well :

// Quick fix : replace the script tag you want to load by a <div load-script></div>.
// Then write a loadScript directive that creates your script tag and appends it to your div.
// Took me one minute.

// This means that in your view, instead of :
<script src="/path/to/my/file.js"></script>

// You'll have :
<div ng-load-script></div>

// And then write a directive like :
angular.module('myModule', []).directive('loadScript', [function() {
    return function(scope, element, attrs) {
        angular.element('<script src="/path/to/my/file.js"></script>').appendTo(element);
    }
}]);

Not the best solution ever, but hey, neither is putting script tags in subsequent views. In my case I have to do this is order to use Facebook/Twitter/etc. widgets.

ocLazyLoad allows to lazily load scripts in the templates/views via routers (e.g. ui-router). Here is a sniplet

$stateProvider.state('parent', {
    url: "/",
    resolve: {
        loadMyService: ['$ocLazyLoad', function($ocLazyLoad) {
             return $ocLazyLoad.load('js/ServiceTest.js');
        }]
    }
})
.state('parent.child', {
    resolve: {
        test: ['loadMyService', '$ServiceTest', function(loadMyService, $ServiceTest) {
            // you can use your service
            $ServiceTest.doSomething();
        }]
    }
});  

To dynamically load recaptcha from a ui-view I use the following method:

In application.js:

    .directive('script', function($parse, $rootScope, $compile) {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        terminal: true,
        link: function(scope, element, attr) {
            if (attr.ngSrc) {
                 var domElem = '<script src="'+attr.ngSrc+'" async defer></script>';
                 $(element).append($compile(domElem)(scope));


            }
        }
    };
});

In myPartial.client.view.html:

 <script type="application/javascript" ng-src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?render=explicit&onload=vcRecaptchaApiLoaded"></script>

Unfortunately all the answers in this post didn't work for me. I kept getting following error.

Failed to execute 'write' on 'Document': It isn't possible to write into a document from an asynchronously-loaded external script unless it is explicitly opened.

I found out that this happens if you use some 3rd party widgets (demandforce in my case) that also call additional external JavaScript files and try to insert HTML. Looking at the console and the JavaScript code, I noticed multiple lines like this:

document.write("<script type='text/javascript' "..."'></script>");

I used 3rd party JavaScript files (htmlParser.js and postscribe.js) from: https://github.com/krux/postscribe. That solved the problem in this post and fixed the above error at the same time.

(This was a quick and dirty way around under the tight deadline I have now. I am not comfortable with using 3rd party JavaScript library however. I hope someone can come up with a cleaner and better way.)

I tried using Google reCAPTCHA explicitly. Here is the example:

// put somewhere in your index.html
<script type="text/javascript">
var onloadCallback = function() {
  grecaptcha.render('your-recaptcha-element', {
    'sitekey' : '6Ldcfv8SAAAAAB1DwJTM6T7qcJhVqhqtss_HzS3z'
  });
};

//link function of Angularjs directive
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
  ...
  var domElem = '<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit" async defer></script>';
  $('#your-recaptcha-element').append($compile(domElem)(scope));
}