Question

I need current path from url in template (content of $location.path). But not via controller, because I have a lot of controllers (and I do not want to duplicate declaration of $scope.currentUrl = $location.path;). Thanks for the advice.

Answer 1

AngularJS template can only see what is available in a scope so you will need somehow to put $location service in a scope. There is one scope that is always available in AngularJS application called $rootScope so it could be use for your use-case.

What you could do is to use run() method of a module to expose $location in the $rootScope:

var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []).run(function($rootScope, $location) {
    $rootScope.location = $location;
});

this would make ‘location’ available in all templates so later on you could do in your template:

Current path: {{location.path()}}