- adding Firebug Lite to the current browser
- changing the scope value outside a normal AngularJS controller, service or module
... which looks like this when executed:
To add Firebug Lite to this page, all we need to do is to add a script reference to https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js
... and after refresh we will have a nice Firebug Lite console (and other nice goodies) at the bottom of our page :)
Next lets see how to access and change the AngularJS $scope of the ContactController.
The objective is to access programatically the New Contact value (set below to Hello Firebug :) )
In Firebug Lite, we can access the scope object by executing: var scope = angular.element(document.body).scope()
... and the New Contact value value using: scope.newcontact
If we change the New Contact value here (in Firebug Lite) using scope.newcontact = "Hello AngularJS"
... we will notice that the value will not automagically (ala AngularJS way) change in the binded (via ng-model) input field
The reason that didn't happen is because the change was done outside the AngularJS $digest cycle.
The solution is to call the scope.$apply() function (and the input field will be updated):
