Reliably determine if angular-ui modal is open or closed (shown or hidden)
TLDR:Include module ui.bootstrap.modal in your app, inject factory $modalStack in your controller/service/whatever and then !!$modalStack.getTop() is enough to know whether a modal exists on not.
Detailed Solution: I was facing the same issue and I came up with the following work around :
There is a factory called $modalStack which is defined in ui-bootstrap lib which handles the modals. Same service also has a method called getTop() which returns the top most modal in dom. (And a method dismissAll() to close all the modals). So I wrote a small module with some small functions.
var utilsModule = angular.module('utilsModule', ['ui.bootstrap.modal']);utilsModule.factory('modalUtils', [ '$modalStack', function ($modalStack) { return { modalsExist: function () { return !!$modalStack.getTop(); }, closeAllModals: function () { $modalStack.dismissAll(); } }; }]);