Is there a way to declare a controller in AngularJS and only specify its dependencies once?

Question

In order to keep dependency injection working after minification I'm using this style to declare a controller:

myModule.controller('myController', ['$rootScope', 'Service', 
 function($rootScope, Service) {
 $scope.foo = 'bar';
}]);

Let's say you want to add another service. You'd have to add it in 2 places, in the array preceding the controller function, and as a parameter of the controller function itself. My question is, is there a way to make this DRY-er? Could you declare a dependency array and use that to build the outer array and the inner parameters, something like this?:

var dependencies = ['$rootScope', 'Service'];
var myProtoController = function() {
 $scope.foo = 'bar';
};
var myController = dependencies.push(myProtoController.bind.apply(this, [this].concat(dependencies)));
myModule.controller('myController', myController);

Answer 1

Can you use Ngmin in your tool chain? It will convert your angular functions into the minify-able style you're currently using.

It integrates with grunt and rails, so it should be simple to use in your current pipeline.

Answer 2

Using concat ?

var deps = ['$rootScope', 'Service'];
myModule.controller('myCtrl', deps.concat(function ($scope, $rs, S) {
 $scope.foo = 'bar';
}));

• TheSharpieOne: I like it. But there is a syntax error. Your missing a closing paren.
• jeffcarp: It looks like you still need to write the dependencies twice in this one.
• Ven: How so? But +1 for ngmin anyway, I just usually try to suggest from scratch-working solutions.