(AngularJS) Only one less file for entire Website - css

Question

I am a beginner with AngularJS and I have a little problem, I installed grunt-contrib-less to support less files instead css but now I have to declare all less styles that will be compiled into only one css file.
But my problem is normally when I'm using less, I write some code for a specific page, and here I have to write the style code for all pages. This is confusing and not really maintanable so is there a best practice to organize less styles?
I tought that there may be multiple solution:
Apply a class to body tag and change it with I don't know what
(controller, services or other)
(Import LESS file only for one page)
Generate multiple css file depending which style is compiled (but I can't do this because I can't configure grunt correctly)
Do this with DOM manipulation (but it don't find it beautifull because I think Angular must have a good way to solve that problem)
Could you explain me how to have different style for differents views ? I don't want to have the same style for all links in all views and without create hundreds classes I don't know how to do that.

Answer 1

Use directive
and add whatever variables/code/logic you want to add
HTML template(directive) of style can be added to your view and after compile you will get different ui for all your views
for reference read
angular directive

Answer 2

I solve my problem by adding specific class on body tag depending the route.
I put a variable in rootScope called 'pageStyle' with correspond to the classname that I want. This variable is updated automatically when route change (see run function). There is an event when the route change ($stateChangeSuccess or $routeChangeSuccess depending if you are using ngRoute or -angularui-routeur).
In my case i would like to add the name of the route but you can do it with the controller name or something else.
Here is an example
This is the routes :
angular
.module('frontApp', [])
.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $mdThemingProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/',
templateUrl: '../views/home.html',
controller: function ($scope) {
$scope.msg = 'Xavier';
}
})
.state('form', {
url: '/form',
templateUrl: '../views/form.html',
controller: 'FormCtrl'
});
}])
And in the run function you will see the event bound to adapt the class when route change :
.run(function($rootScope) {
$rootScope.pageStyle = '';
// Watch state and set controller name in pageStyle variable when state change
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(event, toState) {
event.preventDefault();
if (toState && toState.name && typeof toState.name === 'string'){
$rootScope.pageStyle = toState.name;
} else {
$rootScope.pageStyle = '';
}
});
});
Extra informations :
Note that the event called when route change is different if you are using ngroute. use "$routeChangeSuccess" if you use ngRoute and "$stateChangeSuccess" if you choose to use angular-ui-routeur
If you want to add the controller name instead the route name simply use the follow and replace 'ctrl' with you controller suffixe:
if (toState && toState.controller && typeof toState.controller !== 'function'){
$rootScope.pageStyle = toState.controller.toLowerCase().replace('ctrl','');
}
Hope it help someone else