How to watch multiple variable change in angular

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How to  scope  watch multiple variables in Angular  and trigger callback when one of them has changed    scope name        scope age        scope  watch       function          called when name or age changed

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Angular 1 3 provides  watchGroup specifically for this purpose   https   docs angularjs org api ng type  rootScope Scope  watchGroup  This seems to provide the same ultimate result as a standard  watch on an array of expressions   I like it because it makes the intention clearer in the code

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UPDATE  Angular offers now the two scope methods  watchGroup  since 1 3  and  watchCollection  Those have been mentioned by  blazemonger and  kargold     This should work independent of the types and values    scope  watch   age name    function             true     You have to set the third parameter to true in this case   The string concatenation  age   name  will fail in a case like this    lt button ng-init  age 42 name  foo   ng-click  age 4 name  2foo   gt click lt  button gt    Before the user clicks the button the watched value would be 42foo  42   foo  and after the click 42foo  4   2foo   So the watch function would not be called  So better use an array expression if you cannot ensure  that such a case will not appear    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt       lt head gt           lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt           lt link href    cdn jsdelivr net jasmine 1 3 1 jasmine css  rel  stylesheet    gt           lt script src    cdn jsdelivr net jasmine 1 3 1 jasmine js  gt  lt  script gt           lt script src    cdn jsdelivr net jasmine 1 3 1 jasmine-html js  gt  lt  script gt           lt script src  http   code angularjs org 1 2 0-rc 2 angular js  gt  lt  script gt           lt script src  http   code angularjs org 1 2 0-rc 2 angular-mocks js  gt  lt  script gt           lt script gt   angular module  demo       controller  MainCtrl   function   scope          scope firstWatchFunctionCounter   0       scope secondWatchFunctionCounter   0        scope  watch   age  name    function       scope firstWatchFunctionCounter       true        scope  watch  age   name   function       scope secondWatchFunctionCounter             describe  Demo module   function          beforeEach module  demo         describe  MainCtrl   function              it  watch function should increment a counter   inject function   controller   rootScope                var scope    rootScope  new                scope age   42              scope name    foo               var ctrl    controller  MainCtrl       scope   scope                 scope  digest                 expect scope firstWatchFunctionCounter  toBe 1               expect scope secondWatchFunctionCounter  toBe 1                scope age   4              scope name    2foo               scope  digest                 expect scope firstWatchFunctionCounter  toBe 2               expect scope secondWatchFunctionCounter  toBe 2      This will fail                              function          var jasmineEnv   jasmine getEnv        var htmlReporter   new jasmine HtmlReporter        jasmineEnv addReporter htmlReporter       jasmineEnv specFilter   function  spec            return htmlReporter specFilter spec              var currentWindowOnload   window onload      window onload   function             if  currentWindowOnload                currentWindowOnload                      execJasmine               function execJasmine             jasmineEnv execute                          lt  script gt       lt  head gt       lt body gt  lt  body gt   lt  html gt    http   plnkr co edit 2DwCOftQTltWFbEDiDlA p preview  PS   As stated by  reblace in a comment  it is of course possible to access the values    scope  watch   age name    function  newValue  oldValue        var newAge    newValue 0       var newName   newValue 1       var oldAge    oldValue 0       var oldName   oldValue 1      true

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There is many way to watch multiple values      angular 1 1 4  scope  watchCollection   foo    bar    function newValues  oldValues          do what you want here       or more recent version    angular 1 3  scope  watchGroup   foo    bar    function newValues  oldValues  scope        do what you want here       Read official doc for more informations   https   docs angularjs org api ng type  rootScope Scope

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No one has mentioned the obvious   var myCallback   function     console log  name or age changed        scope  watch  name   myCallback    scope  watch  age   myCallback     This might mean a little less polling  If you watch both name   age  for this  and name  elsewhere  then I assume Angular will effectively look at name twice to see if it s dirty   It s arguably more readable to use the callback by name instead of inlining it  Especially if you can give it a better name than in my example   And you can watch the values in different ways if you need to    scope  watch  buyers   myCallback  true    scope  watchCollection  sellers   myCallback      watchGroup is nice if you can use it  but as far as I can tell  it doesn t let you watch the group members as a collection or with object equality   If you need the old and new values of both expressions inside one and the same callback function call  then perhaps some of the other proposed solutions are more convenient

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scope  watch  age   name   function          called when name or age changed

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