Allow appending to module definitions.

[ProLoser]

So... right now, you must do this:

1. angular.module('myModule', ['dependency1', 'dependency2'])
2. angular.module('myModule')

If you call 1 more than once, you wipe out your original module. If you call 2 first, you get an error (module undefined).

Right now, a problem exists with lazy-loading and asynchronous loading of assets. But what if you could simply supplement a module definition (instead of throwing errors or overriding it).

Lets say I want to load module.js and controller.js and directive.js asynchronously. But if anything other than module loads first, we get errors. If we add a dependency list in the other files, then the preceeding files are blown away.

Why don't we let you load in your crap in whatever order you want (even declaring the dependencies late) and only start throwing errors if these methods are called AFTER angular.bootstrap()?

This may not make lazy-loading perfect, but it would enable us to perform async loading with greater flexibility. Or perhaps async loading is not beneficial enough to bother with this?

[freewind]

Any updates to this issue?

[ProLoser]

I no longer feel this is necessary, although it would be nice to see warnings if we redefine a module (but even this may be beneficial during testing)

[freewind]

What do you mean of "redefine" an module? If we define a module with different dependency the second time after bootstrap, will the directives from new dependency work immediatly?

If it does, my requirement will be satisfied :)

[freewind]

I just tried but failed, could you help to see where is wrong?

http://jsbin.com/xukafo/1/edit

What I've done in this code:

1. At first I just defined a controller. The phone directive in another module is not dependent, so the phone number is not shown.
2. After 3s, I redefined the app module with additional module which contains the phone directive. But it seems not work.

Posted a question to make it clearer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25742259/how-to-redefine-a-module-in-angularjs