Something happened between AngularJS 1.2 and 1.6 to reverse the order that ng-click and ng-change fire in. I've made a plunk to illustrate it: http://plnkr.co/edit/XgbgLSuP1znhWszeyiHd?p=preview ...

With the release of AngularJS V1.7, the option to pre-assign bindings to has deprecated and removed: Due to 38f8c9, directive bindings are no longer available in the constructor. To migrate your c...