When I load the page and check chrome console i find these errors:
what exactly are map files in angular?
I did reference the angular.min.js but not the angular.min.js.map. I am using the angular 1.2 rc release by the way and I just started seeing these errors when i switched to this release.
ERRORS:
GET http://localhost:44786/Scripts/angular-route.min.js.map 404 (Not Found) :44786/Scripts/angular-route.min.js.map:1
GET http://localhost:44786/Scripts/angular-animate.min.js.map 404 (Not Found) :44786/Scripts/angular-animate.min.js.map:1
GET http://localhost:44786/Scripts/angular-resource.min.js.map 404 (Not Found) :44786/Scripts/angular-resource.min.js.map:1
GET http://localhost:44786/Scripts/angular.min.js.map 404 (Not Found) :44786/Scripts/angular.min.js.map:1
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The answer is
Monkey is right, according to the link given by monkey
Basically it's a way to map a combined/minified file back to an unbuilt state. When you build for production, along with minifying and combining your JavaScript files, you generate a source map which holds information about your original files. When you query a certain line and column number in your generated JavaScript you can do a lookup in the source map which returns the original location.
I am not sure if it is angular's fault that no map files were generated. But you can turn off source map files by unchecking this option in chrome console setting
Source: Stackoverflow.com