When there are no authorities, there are no compliance issues :) The roll of controllers and link functions isn't to hold logic, it's to wire things together be

When there are no authorities, there are no compliance issues :) The roll of controllers and link functions isn't to hold logic, it's to wire things together between the scope and services/models. For example, having a userStatus.getUserCall() is a step in the right direction. Now have the service check the response code and use the user data to create a single user object that can be returned/resolved. So your controller becomes userStatus.getUserCall().then(function(user) { $scope.user = user; }) or since angular templates are promise aware, you can reduce it to $scope.user = userStatus.getUserCall(). Now the NavbarCtrl and the MenuCtrl only need to share that one line rather than ~10!