What are the differences between a Service, Provider and Factory in AngularJS?

I am trying to resolve a list of customers prior to rendering a page. Here is the state provider reference, where I have the resolve methods. angular.module('app') .config(($stateProvider) =>...

I read these two great articles: The state of angularjs controllers by Jonathan Creamer and Rethinking AngularJS Controllers by Todd Motto In these articles, the authors talk about the right wa...