Are Angular.js services singletons or created each time?

Question

I am confused about something regarding factories and services for Angular.js.

In this question:

angular.service vs angular.factory

It says that services are created with the new keyword.

While in this question:

Confused about Service vs Factory

It says that services are "singletons".

My questions are:

When you add a 'service' as a dependency injection argument to another module, does Angular create a new service each time? Or is it really singleton (as in one will be created, and then provide that specific instance everywhere)?

services are singleton. – Poyraz Yilmaz Feb 16 '15 at 10:27 — Poyraz Yilmaz, Feb 16 '15 at 10:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '15 at 10:29

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Angular services are:

Lazily instantiated – Angular only instantiates a service when an application component depends on it.
Singletons – Each component dependent on a service gets a reference to the single instance generated by the service factory.

Github official doc.

answered Feb 16 '15 at 10:29

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Do you know if factories also "singletones"? – corgrath Feb 16 '15 at 10:47
factories are also services:-) – squiroid Feb 16 '15 at 10:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:13

"All AngularJS services are singletons. This means that there is only one instance of a given service per injector."

Read:

John Papa style guide. (In addition to answering your questions, are great recommendations to work with AngularJS).

AngularJS docs.

Are Angular.js services singletons or created each time?

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