JarCastingangular-component-factory 
A very opinionated AngularJS decorator and provider inspired by the web components proposal to simplify use of directives as reusable components.
See demo, and view source.
Usage
To install: bower install angular-component-factory
Then add componentFactory as a dependancy to your module or decorate module using angular.componentFactory.moduleDecorator(<your module>)
###Example:
var demo = angular.module('DemoApp', []);
angular.componentFactory.moduleDecorator(demo);
demo.component('unicornTest', function ($log) {
$log.log('Demo component says hi!')
return {
link: function (scope) {
scope.message = "I'm a unicorn component!";
}
}
});
views/components/unicorn-test/unicorn-test.html:
<p>{{message}}</p>
<unicorn-test-component></unicorn-test-component>
Will now expand into a directive that by convention loads a template from /views/components/unicorn-test/unicorn-test.html, replaces contents by default, and creates a new scope. The object that the constructor returns should be a directive definition object. This will then be decorated for convention over configuration.
One way you might use it:
demo.component('horsePartial');
This will try to fetch a template from /views/components/horse-partial/horse-partial.html and instantiate a directive with a isolate scope. Later on when you want to add some logic, just implement the factory function as you usually do for a directive.
Configuration
If you want to set the view path you may do something like this
demo.config(function (componentFactoryProvider) {
componentFactoryProvider.setViewPath('some/custom/path/');
});
Views will then be loaded from some/custom/path/unicorn-test/unicorn-test.html
You can also provide setViewPath with a factory function to do more custom handling based on the components name:
componentFactoryProvider.setViewPath(function (componentSnakeCasedName, componentName) {
return 'components/' + componentSnakeCasedName + '/some-path/views/' + componentName + '.html';
});
This function will be called on every registration to map the component name to a url. The above example will return 'components/example-name/some-path/views/exampleName.html'
The factory will be served with two parameters: the snake cased component name, and the original one, and is expected to return a string path.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Kenneth Lynne
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