angularjs - What is the difference between ui-bootstrap-tpls.min.js and ui-bootstrap.min.js?

Question

At the Angular-UI-Bootstrap page on cdnjs, is says:

Native AngularJS (Angular) directives for Twitter's Bootstrap. Small footprint (5 kB gzipped!), no third-party JavaScript dependencies (jQuery, Bootstrap JavaScript) required!

... and has options for

//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular-ui-bootstrap/0.6.0/ui-bootstrap-tpls.min.js

and

//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular-ui-bootstrap/0.6.0/ui-bootstrap.min.js

Diff'ing these shows a subtle difference, and I can't seem to find any documentation on it...

Long story short, use tpls unless you are going to create customized templates.

It is documented here: github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/tree/gh-pages#build-files (linked from the home page as well). In short the -tpls version has default Bootstrap templates bundled. In any case you should only include one of the listed files. - Thanks pkozlowski.opensource

Answer 1

So, ui-bootstrap-tpls.min.js == (ui-bootstrap.min.js + HTML templates) required by the JavaScript code. If you only included ui-bootstrap.min.js, you will also need to provide your own HTML templates.

Otherwise you will see something like:

GET http://localhost:8989/hello-world/template/tooltip/tooltip-popup.html 404 (Not Found) angular.js:7073
Error: [$compile:tpload] http://errors.angularjs.org/undefined/$compile/tpload?p0=template%2Ftooltip%2Ftooltip-popup.html
    at Error (<anonymous>)
    at http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:6:453
    at http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:54:14
    at http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:64:438
    at A (http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:89:258)
    at A (http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:89:258)
    at http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:90:465
    at g.$eval (http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:98:272)
    at g.$digest (http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:96:142)
    at g.$apply (http://localhost:8989/hello-world/js/vendor/angular-1.2.0-rc.3/angular.min.js:99:100)