Not the elegant prince of our debauched and vicious art, not the jeweled idol of our society churches--but the Jesus of the awful reality, the man of sorrow and pain, the outcast, despised of the world, who had nowhere to lay his head--.
Service is singleton and simple version of Factory. While Factory is a simple version of Provider, Factory is a more flexable compared to service method, and a short handed for configuring a service when $get method is required. Provider creates new object by the $get factory function. Provider is not injectable during run phase or run time while all others are ( Constant, Variable, Service, and Factory), however, Provider is injectable during the configuration phase or compile time.
Differences Between Providers in AngularJS. After reading a lot of articles and sample code it wasn't clear to me what the difference was between the several providers like provider, factory and service. Without this knowledge you could not select the proper provider. I will explain the differences between the providers with examples.