Angularjs: why there are 3 watchers for 1 binding?
I think Angular Batarang has a wrong counter of watchers. I checked with few different sources, and all except AngularJS Batarang show me single watcher on your code. Check out this question with function:
(function () { var root = angular.element(document.getElementsByTagName('body')); var watchers = []; var f = function (element) { angular.forEach(['$scope', '$isolateScope'], function (scopeProperty) { if (element.data() && element.data().hasOwnProperty(scopeProperty)) { angular.forEach(element.data()[scopeProperty].$$watchers, function (watcher) { watchers.push(watcher); }); } }); angular.forEach(element.children(), function (childElement) { f(angular.element(childElement)); }); }; f(root); // Remove duplicate watchers var watchersWithoutDuplicates = []; angular.forEach(watchers, function(item) { if(watchersWithoutDuplicates.indexOf(item) < 0) { watchersWithoutDuplicates.push(item); } }); console.log(watchersWithoutDuplicates.length);})();
And you can check Watchers extension for chrome. Both show 1 watcher.