What versions you are using?

• jquery version:
• datatables version:
• angular-datatables version: 0.5.5

What's the problem?

Angular Way doesn't work when '$' char is used in controller variable while '$ctrl' is the default value of controller in Angular Component (https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/component#comparison-between-directive-definition-and-component-definition).

The regex doesn't match here: https://github.com/l-lin/angular-datatables/blob/v0.5.5/dist/angular-datatables.js#L892

One workaround is to override the default controller name e.g. controllerAs: ctrl

Can you share your code?