angular-ui-bootstrap causes unknown provider error when minified - build

Question

After adding angular-ui-bootstrap and running grunt serve on my yeoman app, it runs perfectly and the modal I want to show is displayed correctly, but once I do a grunt build, I get an unknown provider error in my console.
<!-- This is what I added in my index.html -->
<script src="bower_components/angular-bootstrap/ui-bootstrap-tpls.js"></script>
// In app.js I have
angular.module('yeomanApp', [
'ngCookies',
'ngResource',
'ngSanitize',
'ngRoute',
'ui.bootstrap'
])
and in the controller,
.controller('myCntrl', function ($modal) {
$scope.items = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3'];
$scope.showDeleteWarning = function () {
var modalInstance = $modal.open({
templateUrl: 'deleteWarning.html',
controller: ModalInstanceCtrl,
resolve: {
items: function () {
return $scope.items;
}
}
});
modalInstance.result.then(function (selectedItem) {
$scope.selected = selectedItem;
}, function () {});
};
// Please note that $modalInstance represents a modal window (instance) dependency.
// It is not the same as the $modal service used above.
var ModalInstanceCtrl = function ($scope, $modalInstance, items) {
$scope.items = items;
$scope.selected = {
item: $scope.items[0]
};
$scope.ok = function () {
$modalInstance.close($scope.selected.item);
deleteVent();
};
$scope.cancel = function () {
$modalInstance.dismiss('cancel');
};
};
};

Answer 1

Likely that you need to inject your controller dependency...
https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_05#a-note-on-minfication
.controller('myCntrl', ['$modal', function ($modal) {
/* Controller Code Here... */
}]);

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but I'll post my answer here for people who come across this problem in the future.
I came across this exact problem before. The cause of your errors during minification is most likely your 'var ModalInstanceCtrl'.
Here's how I got my code to work:
var modalInstance = $modal.open({
templateUrl: 'deleteWarning.html',
controller: 'ModalInstanceCtrl', //change this to a string
resolve: {
items: function () {
return $scope.items;
}
}
});
and this line:
var ModalInstanceCtrl = function ($scope, $modalInstance, items) {
to:
angular.module('myModule').controller('ModalInstanceCtrl', function ($scope, $modalInstance, items) {

Answer 3

For anyone who just encountered this problem, maybe this will help.
We use customModalDefaults and customModalOptions, so we had to turn the whole return $modal.open(tempModalDefaults).result; in the show function to the following:
this.show = function (customModalDefaults, customModalOptions) {
//Create temp objects to work with since we're in a singleton service
var tempModalDefaults = {};
var tempModalOptions = {};
//Map angular-ui modal custom defaults to modal defaults defined in service
angular.extend(tempModalDefaults, modalDefaults, customModalDefaults);
//Map modal.html $scope custom properties to defaults defined in service
angular.extend(tempModalOptions, modalOptions, customModalOptions);
return $modal.open({
backdrop: customModalDefaults.backdrop,
keyboard: customModalDefaults.keyboard,
modalFade: customModalDefaults.modalFade,
templateUrl: customModalDefaults.templateUrl,
size: customModalDefaults.size,
controller: ['$scope', '$modalInstance', function ($scope, $modalInstance) {
$scope.modalOptions = tempModalOptions;
$scope.modalOptions.ok = function (result) {
$modalInstance.close(result);
};
$scope.modalOptions.close = function (result) {
$modalInstance.dismiss('cancel');
};
} ]
}).result;
};

Answer 4

I just ran into this problem on only one of many modals used throughout my application, and it turned out my problem was not using explicit function annotation in the resolve block of the modal configuration.
var modalInstance = $uibModal.open({
templateUrl: 'preferences.html',
controller: 'preferencesCtrl as ctrl', // this external controller was using explicit function annotation...
resolve: {
parent: [function() {
return ctrl;
}],
sectorList: ['preferencesService', function(preferencesService) { // but this was not!
return preferencesService.getSectors();
}]
}
});
Hope this saves someone else a gray hair or two...