I have an AngularJS service that I want to initialize with some asynchronous data. Something like this: myModule.service('MyService', function($http) { var myData = null; $http.get('data.json').success(function (data) { myData = data; }); return { setData: function (data) { myData = data; }, doStuff: function () { return myData.getSomeData(); } }; }); Obviously this won't work because if something