Underscore is a fantastic JavaScript library and it's an invaluable tool for web developers. I made this wrapper to solve two particular issues for Angular developers.

• Underscore is now fully in the Angular digest lifecycle: Underscore provides a number of asynchronous functions that falls outside of the angular lifecycle and it's up to you to manage it with manual $scope.$apply() calls. (_.throttle and _.debounce as examples) You can now use any function provided by Underscore and it will be in the angular lifecycle.
• It's now off the global scope: Angular provides an excellent Dependency Injection system and Underscore is now an injectable service. This keeps it off the global namespace and helps with unit testing.

The only part of Underscore that's been modified is that all setTimeout and clearTimeout calls have been respectively replaced with $timeout and $timeout.cancel(). Besides those changes it's 100% stock Underscore.

AngularJS : 1.2+ (It's possible this will work on older versions of Angular . Older versions of Angular have not been tested and it's not currently supported.)

Project files are also available through Bower

bower install underscore-angularized

or GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/ng-angularized/underscore-angularized.git

Then load the module into your main module.

angular.module('myModule', ['underscore-angularized']);

To use underscore, just load it as a dependency into your module.

angular.module('myModule').controller('myController', ['underscore', function(_){
    //Use Underscore here...
}])

Directives from this repository are automatically tested with the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• IE 9+
• Opera
• Safari

Modern mobile browsers should work without problems.

Install Dependencies for Testing

• Install Node.js and NPM
• Install local dev dependencies: npm install while current directory is underscore-angularized repo

Run the tests

• Run Default test: grunt run test

• Run Chrome tests: grunt run test-chrome
• Run Firefox tests: grunt run test-firefox
• Run IE tests: grunt run test-ie