Is it worth using with RequireJS for AngularJS project

Question

I have heard that AngularJS has its own module loading mechanism under the hood and using RequireJS is not needed, if not inefficient to use. Is this true? Currently I have an Angular project where the index.html file is getting to be quite big. Should I use RequireJS to mitigate that problem or will that hurt performance? Thanks for your input.

Answer 1

Angular modules need to be available at the startup generally for the bootstrap process. However there is a way to lazy load Angular modules: ocLazyLoad .

This applies for Angular 1.x. While you can load normal JavaScript with RequireJS this won't work for Angular modules.