There are couple of ways of injecting dependencies into AngularJS components. The most common one is just to specify the dependency name in the function's argument list (function() { angular .module('app') .controller('shellCtrl', function ($scope, $http) { $scope.title = "Title"; }); })(); However this technique fails in real life scenarios, because for production we usually (or rather always) minify and uglify javascript files. Uglify proces renames our varia...