force our homepage controller to resolve our app init process before executing...

force our homepage controller to resolve our app init process before executing to avoid issues with redirect logic not working because we don't have appropriate state information yet.

resources/frontend_client/app/app.js

@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ Corvus.config(['$routeProvider', '$locationProvider', function($routeProvider, $
 
     $routeProvider.when('/', {
         template: '',
-        controller: 'Homepage'
+        controller: 'Homepage',
+        resolve: {
+            appState: function(AppState) {
+                return AppState.init();
+            }
+        }
     });
 
     $routeProvider.when('/unauthorized/', {

resources/frontend_client/app/services.js

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ CorvusServices.factory('AppState', ['$rootScope', '$routeParams', '$q', '$locati
         // 1. appstate:user
         // 2. appstate:organization
 
+        var initPromise;
+
         var service = {
 
             model: {
@@ -24,8 +26,21 @@ CorvusServices.factory('AppState', ['$rootScope', '$routeParams', '$q', '$locati
             },
 
             init: function() {
-                // just make sure we grab the current user
-                service.model.currentUserPromise = service.refreshCurrentUser();
+
+                if (!initPromise) {
+                    var deferred = $q.defer();
+                    initPromise = deferred.promise;
+
+                    // just make sure we grab the current user
+                    service.model.currentUserPromise = service.refreshCurrentUser();
+                    service.model.currentUserPromise.then(function (user) {
+                        deferred.resolve();
+                    }, function (error) {
+                        deferred.resolve();
+                    });
+                }
+
+                return initPromise;
             },
 
             clearState: function() {