When you create databinding in somewhere in the application on a scope , angular automatically created a watch internally , means it will listen the changes in the variable you bind.
Example
angular.module('app', []);
angular.module('app').controller('ctrl', function ($scope) {
$scope.size = 100;
});
angular.module('app').directive('heightDynamic', function () {
return {
link: function (scope, el, attrs) {
scope.$watch(attrs['heightDynamic'], function (newVal) {
el.css('height', newVal + 'px');
});
}
}
});
when the the value of the model ‘size’ changes, the size automatically set as a height of that div element.
