Check If An Angular Directive Exists

We're doing a lot of work around dynamic directives in our Angular project, and one thing that came up as a nice-to-have was a way to have a generic directive that can list many di

Solution 1:

You can use $injector.has to check if a provider or instance exists.

app.directive('objectList', function ($compile, $injector) {
  return {
    template: 'OK',
    link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
      var exist = $injector.has('myMessageDirective');
      ...
    }
  };
});